Gently Weeping

It's funny how certain events can join together to form a single cohesive thought or message. That happened the other night as I was watching a few YouTube videos.

The first video was of Keanu Reeves and Carrie Ann Moss. They were being interviewed about their soon-to-be-released movie - Matrix Resurrections.

Keanu was excitedly talking about alternative realities featured in The Matrix movies. There are actually lots of people living in "alternative realities" in the world right now.

Democrats, Republicans, various religious denominations and religious belief systems. Even individual humans can live in a different reality through Alzheimers or dementia.

The next video I watched was of the late George Harrison (the former Beatle) performing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Eric Clapton.

You might wonder how those two videos could possibly be related. Until you come to the line in the song that goes, "Look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping."

As God sits on His thrown, looking down at us and our alternative realities, couldn't you almost hear Him saying, "Look at you all. You think you are awake but you are really sleeping. How quickly you turn away from worshipping me. You have forgotten your first love. I see the love in you. It is sleeping. Lulled to sleep by "the world". Wake up! The world has become your reality. You are not of this world! Wake up! Your redemption is near and you are sleeping!!"

"When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near" - Luke 21:28

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." - Romans 12:2

"You have forsaken the love you had at first" - Revelation 2:4

There are many people, sleeping their lives away in this world. They worship gods that cannot heal or save. They worship the gods that they themselves have created. Idol worshippers. This is not good!

But there is always hope, in God. He always provides a means of escape for His remnant. WE are that remnant. Let's live like it.

"The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous And His ears are open to their cry." - Psalm 34:15

It's not too late for us to repent, but soon it will be.

"Examine yourselves."

"Look at the world and notice it's turning. While my guitar gently weeps. With every mistake we must surely be learning. While my guitar gently weeps." - George Harrison, While My Guitar Gently Weeps