of Scarlett O'Hara and such.....
If you know Jesus as Savior and Lord, then you are His. He is yours. So why does He continue to woo you, to romance you on a daily basis? After all, we do not deserve His love...why, just look at all we do: we hurt others, either through intention or not. We are too busy to call on Him let alone see to others' needs. and yet.....
“Step right up!” the barkers of the world’s Big Tent call. “Come and see the greatest show on earth!” And even though we know in our heart we’re going to be disappointed, we enter the tent flaps, find our way to the seat marked on the ticket stub, and wait to be entertained and amazed with all the world has to offer. In the end, we are always disappointed. This was not the greatest show after all. And even though we don’t deserve it, God woos us yet again.
Sometimes I fear we are like Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind. Throughout the entire story, Rhett Butler tried to win her heart, but Scarlett was smitten by the milquetoast Ashley Wilkes. Finally, as the story comes to a close, Rhett walks away in frustration. “I feel sorry for you, Scarlett,” he declares. “You are throwing away love with both hands and grabbing for that which will never love you.”
As I watched the movie, I kept thinking, doesn’t she see how much Rhett really loves her? He’d move heaven and earth to please her, if she would but let him. Why is she going after someone who would never make her truly happy? And this after her vow that as God was her witness, she'd never be hungry again. But she had to lie, beg, steal and kill to carry that vow!
What if...she relied on God instead?
And we are Scarlett, ignoring the only One who can make us truly happy and chasing after figments of our imagination…things that will never make us happy—milquetoast lovers who pale in the shadow of the Lover of our Soul. Of course, in the end, Scarlett realizes her love for Rhett, and runs home to tell him so. But it is too late.
As with most analogies, this one has a fatal flaw…Jesus will never
throw up his hands and walk away. “Here I am!” Jesus says. “I stand at
the door and knock” (Revelation 3:20).
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!
ReplyDeleteyou can learn so much from Gone with the Wind! Scarlett was tenacious when all her sisters wanted to do was quit. However, pride got the best of Scarlett and she used people to her advantage. How many of us do this? I think more than one would admit!
ReplyDeleteI am thinking of rob today--been for awhile actually--and how his missus sticks by him, no matter what! And how God sticks by us no matter what! and how maybe we ALL should be like that...instead of self seeking, we should put out for another person...no matter what! No conditions, no strings attached...just because it is the right thing to do! No matter what!
ReplyDeletethe missus is obviously a fool!
ReplyDeleteObviously a fool? How so? To give love under any cercumtance? Is that a fool? To understand the one you love and work with them to live better, is that a fool? To answer Anonymous and think you are better, THAT truly is a fool!
ReplyDeleteAll that aside, (avoid acccustions and idiots here) why cant others allow someone to love another without throwing their own so called "BELIEFS" in on others?
Does your mother say so? Do your fatherless childs friends say so? Are you so misdirrected by someone who has their own unfortunate sittuations by their own faults that you refuse to hone in on what is real and deal with reality?
Reality is ... all have to grow up and stop being self centered and work with others rather than thinking only of themselves.
"Do Unto Others As You Would Have Done Unto You."
Remember that, y'all.
As a side note, think of you also, Andy.
how often, rob, does she pick up after you? make excuses for you? Wait for you to get sober? she is enabling you, pure and simple. To live with an alcoholic...is she really so understanding? Doesn't she get fed up and want a better life for herself? and what about you? why are YOU so selfish that you cannot give her that? Alcoholics are all about themselves and that next drink! Heaven has enough saints...she doesn't need to take over. and what of your kids? your grandkids? how often do you see them when you are drunk? Probably never I am guessing. Do you base every minute on that next drink? Look over your life and see how you have failed. Right thing to do, Andy W.?? You are just as big a fool as she is, as rob is.
ReplyDeletemaybe "Anonymous" its all about Love! and if you Love someone, then everything else just falls into place! I wish someone had REALLY loved my mom...instead of using her all her life. She would probably still be around now....and tell me just how proud she is of me. Instead, I watched her sink into oblivion into her drugs and booze. Selfish? Hardly, rob is very aware of his function and has to live with himself every day for it.
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