The Meg

My wife and I watched The Meg a year or so ago. That was enough for us. It was pretty lame, almost laughable at times. But one scene caught my attention.

The scientific cruise ship had just been capsized by the giant shark. The entire crew went flying into the ocean. Some of them landing a hundred feet or so from the ship. Yeah, right.

Anyway, two of these distant crew members (a man and a woman) conveniently landed right next to each other. And here comes the shark! Er, excuse me . . . The Meg! (Short for megalodon).

At the 3:45 mark of the clip below we see that man and woman in water quite some distance from the boat. And a shark in the distance. But not for long.

"Jaxx. You're gonna make it. You're a good person. Don't look back."

The guy starts beating the water to draw the shark to himself. He's sacrificing his own life so that the woman could live.

The woman makes it back to the boat safely but she is in tears, thinking about what her friend had done for her.

Several things . . .

Yes, this man sacrificed his life to save someone else, but I'm not going to compare what HE did to Jesus' sacrifice for OUR sins. WAY different.

He told the woman that she was a good person. Wrong. That's not what Jesus says.

"No one is good except God alone." - Mark 10:18

But the thing that struck me the most was the womans tears. She wept at what had been done for her. My question is this:

Did WE weep when we learned that Jesus died for us? I'm guessing no. I didn't.

My next question is "Why not?"

Difficult to answer. Everyone's different, but we never walked with Jesus personally. We didn't interact with Him on a daily basis.

I think the disciples probably wept at His death, but I'm just guessing. His mother and Mary Magdalene probably wept as well.

I don't know about you, but I feel incredibly unworthy right now. His sacrifice . . . our Savior and our God . . . on a cross. And I didn't shed a tear? I need to learn to weep. David did.

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame." - Psalm 22:1-5

Sacrifice - The Meg