Have you ever watched a movie and it made you realize just how much God truly does love you.
I was watching Seven Pounds... You know the movie with Will Smith. Just in case you have not seen the movie here's my brief scenario of the movie without giving much away.
Carrying an ID card from the U.S. Dept. of Treasury, Ben Thomas circles some names on a printout. One is blind phone salesman and pianist Ezra (Woody Harrelson), while another is Emily (Rosario Dawson), a young woman with an enlarged heart who will need a transplant soon if she’s to survive. It’s hard to know how to read Ben during this phase; the way he insinuates himself into other people’s lives gives him something of the air of a hustler or con man, and his contentious phone relationship with his brother (Michael Ealy) raises questions of its own.
On the other hand, Ben appears anxious to please, his directness and soft-spoken urgency betokening a genuineness of intent. Before long, an appealing tenderness enters into his relationship with Emily that ultimately blossoms into a full-blown love story, something that fills out a great chunk of the running time.
It impossible to claim that this film lacks the courage of the story teller's convictions or faith in the moral value of their contrived little sacrificial fable. Now I don't know any human in their right mind that would go through such extremes without being deemed emotionally, mentally or socially disturbed. All that aside, and in spite of that, I really like this movie. :)
So now Emily needs a new heart and Tim (calls himself Ben) has to stick to the plan, so she could have a new heart. Isn't that what Jesus did for us. We have an evil and wicked heart and Jesus gave His life so we could have new life and that more abundantly not only did He give us a new life, he gave us a better life. Because think about what type of life would we have walking around blind to what's really going on in the world, or not able to function normally. Life would be limited at best but Jesus gave Himself on the tree that you would be able to have new eyes to see and perceive and a new heart not that old stony heart that you had prior to that was giving you some much problems giving and receiving love.
God fell so in love with us that he knew he had to stick to the plan to redeem us back. So in spite of wanting to stay and hold us and wipe away our tears He gave His life so that we might live a better life and have every opportunity to know Him and his love. But more importantly than that, we have his heart to love others and his eyes to see others.
What a price He paid for us!
On the other hand, Ben appears anxious to please, his directness and soft-spoken urgency betokening a genuineness of intent. Before long, an appealing tenderness enters into his relationship with Emily that ultimately blossoms into a full-blown love story, something that fills out a great chunk of the running time.
"Given Emily’s vulnerability, Ben’s gentle patience with her, Smith and Dawson’s attractiveness, the lushly intimate widescreen images devised by Muccino and lenser Philippe Le Sourd, and Angelo Milli’s literally incessant button-pushing score, “Seven Pounds” offers either seductive emotional appeal or indigestible mawkishness, according to taste. Along the way, there are references to a fatal vehicular accident, suggestions of Ben’s deceptiveness and inscrutable imagery of a jellyfish which, you may be sure, all factor crucially in the denouement."
It impossible to claim that this film lacks the courage of the story teller's convictions or faith in the moral value of their contrived little sacrificial fable. Now I don't know any human in their right mind that would go through such extremes without being deemed emotionally, mentally or socially disturbed. All that aside, and in spite of that, I really like this movie. :)
So now Emily needs a new heart and Tim (calls himself Ben) has to stick to the plan, so she could have a new heart. Isn't that what Jesus did for us. We have an evil and wicked heart and Jesus gave His life so we could have new life and that more abundantly not only did He give us a new life, he gave us a better life. Because think about what type of life would we have walking around blind to what's really going on in the world, or not able to function normally. Life would be limited at best but Jesus gave Himself on the tree that you would be able to have new eyes to see and perceive and a new heart not that old stony heart that you had prior to that was giving you some much problems giving and receiving love.
God fell so in love with us that he knew he had to stick to the plan to redeem us back. So in spite of wanting to stay and hold us and wipe away our tears He gave His life so that we might live a better life and have every opportunity to know Him and his love. But more importantly than that, we have his heart to love others and his eyes to see others.
What a price He paid for us!
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Pastor Linda Hillman
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