Divergent

I was flippin' around the TV channels, looking for something to waste my time watching while I ate lunch, when I came across Allegient, one of the Divergent series of movies.

It only took a few minutes of watching it before I began to see the similarities between the plot of the movie and the world we are all living in today.

In the first movie of this trilogy, Divergent, society is divided up into "factions." Have you ever seen OUR country so divided as it is today?

There are those in our society who like to separate people into "factions" based on a person's race or gender. Watch the national news tonight. It doesn't matter what channel. Listen for key words like 'black,' 'white,' 'hispanic,' or 'trans.' This is all wrong. There is only one race - the HUMAN race.

"From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands." - Acts 17:26

"He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them “mankind” on the day when they were created." - Genesis 5:12

In the Divergent movies the elites (called the Erudites) are trying to rule over the other factions. Are our governments today any different? It's all about power and money.

Ultimately the 'deplorable' factions in the movie rebel. This has happened once before in our country. It was called The Civil War.

There were four basic reasons for The Civil War - the economy, cultural issues, power of the federal government over the states, and of course, slavery.

Is today any different? The economy has taken a nose dive, there are many cultural divides, the federal government is WAY too powerful and we, the taxpayers, are the slaves.

We haven't learned.

Abraham Lincoln was the president back then. What did HE think? Did he have a solution?

"Whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord."

Amen, brother! This is our challenge today. We must become divergent. But not with guns and war. We must repent and follow God. The choice is ours. 

"The Lord will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors, if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul." - Deuteronomy 30:9-10

Finally . . .

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -

I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost