Let Your Yes Be Yes

Here we go again. So the movie Easy A become available on netflix instant watch so I figured why not. It was surprisingly better than I thought it was going to be and there were lessons to be had all throughout the movie. The one I am going to focus on this time is lying but first let me give you a preview of what the movie is about so that you can have some understanding of what I am talking about. Again this is a blog about movies if you don't want me to ruin the movie I recommend watching it first.

The movie is about a girl in high school who has never been noticed besides by her current friends. When given the chance she makes up a story about a college student she lost her virginity to. Of course this being a movie and high school, the rumor spreads like a wildfire and she goes from being invisible to being known by the entire school. Eventually this led to her creating stories about having sex with people when she really wasn't. The stories helped all the other people around her but she was becoming the person no one wanted to know. Towards the end she finally figured out that now that everyone knows her she feels more alone than ever before because she is hated by everyone.

Long story short, if you keep lying to others eventually those lies will turn on you. In this case the movie turned out to have a happy ending with everything being resolved but life is not always so nice. The lesson that I am taking away from this, well more of reinstating is that of a very common piece of scripture.

"All you need to say is simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one."
Matthew 5:37 NIV

 It is quite simple but in today's society seems one of the hardest to put in place. For as long as I can remember I have seen the media flooded with shows and movies about people who live lies, maybe being a secret agent, affairs, etc... and I think it has an effect on how easy it is for us to lie. It always starts small like saying that you brushed your teeth when you didn't or other similar things that we say when we are younger but the more we get away with the easier it becomes.

Here is a news flash, God knows when you lie and I can tell you he hates it when you try and lie to him. God knows everything you do before you do it so you might as well start with just talking truth to him. Let your yes be yes and your no be no. If you tell God you are going to change then do it.

Lets go backwards on this. Start small with God until it becomes a habit to tell the truth. Start with telling God everything since he already knows it. I guarantee that we have all told lies even if it is clicking the maybe button on facebook event just because you don't want to put no. We do it so easily that now a day we have to add extra words to what we say in order for people to try and believe us. Words like promise have little meaning when we shouldn't have to say them in the first place. So lets go back to the beginning and start a new habit of telling the truth all the time. Do it so often that telling a lie no matter how small feels wrong. How awesome would it be to live in a world what people said is actually what they meant.

This goes hand in hand with my last blog about destroying your surrogate and being who you are. Be truthful with God and your relationship will grow with him. When you start talking the truth you realize how easy it is to go to God and if you start with that you can then move to your friends here on earth. This being that you are having problems with lying. I don't mean obsessive lying but the little lies we tell all the time like telling someone you will be somewhere and not show up. It is the little lies that stack up until we realize that we have no friends that will believe what we say or can rely on us. There is no worse than feeling alone. God will never turn his back on you but don't throw it in his face.

Lets finish up with a recap. This post was based on lies that happened in the movie  Easy A which is not a movie that you have to see but if you having nothing else to watch on netflix instant watch then I would say go ahead. The lesson to take away is to let your yes be yes and your no be no in that your words should be exactly what you mean to say. Lets start by talking truth with God since he already knows it anyways and go from them their until it becomes habit to always tell the truth and not to tell those little lies that will eventually stack up and stab you in the back. Strengthen your relationship with God, then move on to your family and friends. It is better to be known for who you are then who you are not.

Taking Off Your Mask

While I was doing nothing yesterday I stumbled upon the movie Surrogates with Bruce Willis on T.V. I was very skeptical of this move when I first heard of it but after watching it, I thought that it was quite entertaining. To give you a brief summary just in case you have not seen this movie, the world has turned to using Surrogates or robots in which people can control from the safety from their homes or workplace. The only problem is that the surrogates can be altered in any way in appearance that is. This creates a world full of fake people, you may know someone but you have no idea what they actually look like. I hate to do this for people who have not seen the movie but to get all that you can from this blog I have to tell you the ending. By the end of the movie Bruce Willis goes from relying on a surrogate to do his work to destroying every single surrogate across the world.

This is what we as Christians need to do. We need someone to come along and destroy our surrogates, that body that we walk around in that we want people to see. News flash! People don't want to see the fake you, they want to see the real you and so does God. The only part of this that doesn't work is that one person can't destroy all of our surrogates for us but we all must destroy our own. Too often people hide behind what they feel comfortable with and what they think other people want to see and often times that thing they hide behind just brings them down. You shouldn't feel comfortable, we are made to stand out and be uncomfortable. God is always testing and pushing us past our boundaries, so if you feel uncomfortable you are most likely on the right track.

The time is now to take off your mask, destroy your surrogate and just be truthful in who you are. If you have to, start small and just be honest with God. He already knows everything you have done and everything you will do so you might as well use that as a starting point not to mention God loves it when you talk to him as long as it is the true you. I don't know about you but when I started being honest with God in my prayers it seemed like a weight was lifted off my shoulders. I had found someone I can talk to about anything and never have them turn their back on you.

"Take note of how I love what you tell me; out of your life of love, prolong my life."

" Your Words all add up to the sum total: Truth. Your righteous decisions are eternal"
Psalm 119:156&160 The Message

I know this is very short and to the point but that is how I like to write and the message I got from this movie and now sharing with you is very to the point. It is simple, just remove your mask and toss your surrogate self aside and just be the real you, the one that God made. Though the steps to get to this point may seem hard and uncomfortable the payoff will be great. So stop pretending to be someone you're not and show off the real you.

I hope you enjoyed this blog post, and I hope I didn't ruin the movie for you but I do recommend seeing Surrogates if you have not already. I will continue to post at least once a week, I don't want to run out of movies too soon.

Intro

Hello and welcome to my new blog God at The Movies. Over the years I have seen thousands of movies but only just recently I would consider myself a true Christian. I am starting this blog to show how I sometimes use movies in order to strengthen my relationship with God. Some movies that I go over may be very obvious like Tron while other may seem like a stretch but in all cases it will come back to helping me with my relationship with God. My hopes in sharing this is that the people who read this will start to look at movies differently and may take in some of the things I have to say. Just like many things in this world, I know some people will enjoy this blog while other will hate it, but please refrain from leaving negative comments, it ruins the blog and all you have to do is just not read it. Thank You for at least taking a look and I hope that you enjoy.