One of my favorite movies. Thank the Lord I finally bought it at Target for an affordable price. Yay! $5.50 for a DVD. Many years ago I wrote what was on my heart about how that movie related to me being a picture of my heart. I am a runaway bride. Yes, not literally, but spiritually. Umm, I am not getting married so it can’t be literal. What I am trying to say is that I run from love. Part of it can be explained by my most recent blog. I have experienced deep abandonment wounds. As I was saying… the movie Runaway Bride, it inspired to write all these rambling in my journal like maybe 2 years ago. I hope you will enjoy these ramblings I am about to expose to the blog world. Originally these were ideas in my head you know if like I was giving a talk. This is me being vulnerable sharing them with you.
Movie: Runaway Bride
Are you running from your bridegroom? (Jesus)
Run TO Jesus!
Remember building forts with sheets when you were younger?
So wouldn’t it be fun to have a get together slumber party and be a child again by building forts?
I thought it would be fun to do that and watch the movie Runway Bride while hanging out in the forts with soda and popcorn.
There would be a correlation: God is our stronghold, fortress. David in the bible ran to God his stronghold when Saul was chasing after him. David was a man after God’s heart.
So you see I tend to run from Jesus (Runaway Bride) instead of running towards His love and protection. (Stronghold)
Job in the bible- God lets Satan take away everything from him. Job still praises God. Would you? Do you have grip marks from holding on to an idol? What is your idol, your security?
Say a model her face is burned in an accident
or a dentist arm is taken away in a car crash
a couple moving away to ministry and the young lady finds out her mom has terminal cancer
your best friend, your husband, leaves you for another woman…
these are all fiery arrows in your heart. you are left wounded, with an empty space in your heart. do you still praise God?
idol= “no God, not that, take anything, but not that God… not that.”
How do you react with this empty space in your heart? fill it by your own means? Run and hide from God?
aka Runaway Bride
or put up walls, harden your heart?
aka worldy strongholds
Heart of the matter
Christianity is a love affair of the heart- Sacred Romance
Imagine a dating game, you will most likely see three girls:
1. Girl who loves Jesus with religiosity/ministry
2. Girl who is too afraid to love, her heart is hardened
3. Girl who loves Jesus boldly with an authentic, deep love.
In the movie Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, there is a scene where a young girl’s father is getting remarried. He stops the wedding to get his daughter from the crowd and bring her to the front to be in the wedding. She is feeling shame and not wanting to go up there in the jeans she is wearing. Her father does not care about that. He knows he loves her and wants her to be at his side.
This is how our heavenly father thinks about us.
He loves us as we are.
How do we love Him? Who are we giving our heart to? God is calling out to you! How will you resond?
In the movie Patch Adams there are 3 type of examples of responders to love:
1. A + med student (love by works)
2. Girl (hardened heart- runs from love)
3. Patch (bold, authentic, deep love)
Are you a runaway bride? Are you running from Jesus your bridegroom?
Now is the time to run to Him! for he is your shelter, protection, fortress, and stronghold. David ran to God when his enemy was chasing after him. No matter what God promises to always be waiting for you. You, like David, have a stronghold to run to. I pray you run into His loving arms.
Oh and if there was really a dating game with Jesus, it would not end with him choosing just one. He would choose all. You would be chosen no matter how you love. Because you are special to him. You are loved like you are the only person on earth. So how does one respond to that kind of love? Be still and accept it. No matter if you are single, dating, or happily married, you have a lover of your soul and He is passionately pursuing you. Fail big and He still loves you. He will never leave you. His love is unconditional. He wants all your heart, mind, and soul. Will you give it to Him? He says come as you are. You don’t have to fix yourself up for Him. Just fix your eyes on Him.
Back to Patch Adams- in the end the girl died, but she truly lived before she dies, fully lived because she stopped running from love. The young girl even accepted and trusted love. And the bible says Jesus, our bridegroom, came so that we may live and live abundantly. John 10:10
Let’s stop running and like in the movie Runaway Bride, turn in our running shoes, but turn them into Jesus!