You won't. Tomorrow sometime will be fine!
You won't. Tomorrow sometime will be fine!
Well Dansy, Here it is......................
My humble review
February 26, 2004
During the course of my lifetime, spanning some 54 years thus far, I have never seen a film that has affected me as The Passion Of Christ has done.
I thought I knew what it was all about, and I thought that I had the requisite understanding of the pain and sacrifice that Jesus had suffered and made in all our names.
I was prepared to see the film, had read the reviews and had even read the naysayers accounts of their varied objections to what Mel Gibson had created. Oh yes, I was the self appointed expert on what I had understood to be the “truth".
I had lived my life to best of my ability in a way that I thought God wanted and I had listened intently to fellow Christians as they witnessed their faith and had even read the Scriptures and marveled at their contents.
Well, there is the setup, and now comes the story…………
I knew in my heart that something was going to happen to me in some way before I went to see this film. I cannot say why I knew this, but I did. I was not prepared at all for what did occur, and I never suspected the profound influence that this wonderful movie would have on me. This may sound a bit foolish to some of you who have known the truth that I discovered only last night, but I must write this and admit my ignorance of so many years.
Previously, I knew that Jesus gave his life for ALL our sins. I repeated this fact often and I thought I understood all that needed to be understood. Or, so I thought.
But, I learned that he had in fact died for ME!
So simple, yet so profound. The simplest things are so often the most important of all.
A concept that has eluded me all these years that I could never quite get a handle on, I now have my arms wrapped around it, and have embraced it fully.
My relationship with Jesus is now a personal one, more so than I ever thought possible. It is no longer in the second or third person as I had understood it before. I feel like a fool. I feel like a man who went to bed with a cancer and woke up cured and healthy. How or why I did not understand this concept before is totally beyond me.
In my humble opinion, I believe to be one of the driving forces behind the making of this film and the reason that Gibson had to make and share it with all of us.
The critics, the naysayers, the haters, the fearful and the voluminous publicity that this film has received is now but a footnote to me. I want to thank Mel Gibson for helping me to see the TRUTH and I believe that many, many others who like me were missing this important truth will find it in this fantastic presentation.