Meet the Robinsons was on.
Now, for those of you who don't know what Meet the Robinsons is, let me enlighten you. Meet the Robinsons is an animated movie that's just adorable and entertaining and teaches you a lot about life. I mean, yes, it is a kid's movie, but so what? It's funny. So I watched it.
As I watched this movie for the second time I was struck by something that I didn't really pay attention to the first time I watched it. The main theme of the movie: Keep Moving Forward
At first the repetition of this slogan really annoyed me but then when I looked passed that I really liked this idea. I started to really think about what "keep moving forward" really means and then I realized that this slogan reminds me of a story I once heard.
In Genesis 19 there's this really intense story about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Basically, these two angels come to town and go live in this dude named Lot's house for a couple of days. While they're living their the men of the town come to Lot's place and tell him to bring the angels out so they could rape them.
Intense, right?
Yea... Well Lot says no to the men and he even offers up his daughters to be raped so that the men would leave the angels alone. In turn, the angels aren't very happy and they end up telling Lot to get out cause they were gonna destroy the place since there were no holy, Godly men around. When Lot, his wife, and his children leave the angels tell them only one thing:
DO NOT LOOK BACK!!
That was the one rule that the angels gave them so that they wouldn't be "swept away when the city [was] punished". But of course, Lot and his family being human and this being the bible, Lot's wife HAD to look back at the city that was being destroyed.
And what were the repercussions of this?
Lot's wife turned into salt.
Yea.... Salt.
Of ALL the things!! God turned her into salt. I'm sure that her turning into salt has some deep meaning but I'm not gonna focus on that. I'm gonna focus on the fact that she went against what God and the angels told her to do.
Why would she do that?
Didn't she know that God is faithful to his word? Didn't she realize that something bad would happen?
I think she made the same choice that every single one of us makes in our lives on a daily basis. As humans, we ALWAYS look back at our pasts, even though God has told us not to because he has something so much greater for us in the future.
I know I personally am always dwelling on the past, no matter how much I realize that that's a bad idea. The reason for this is that our memories are sometimes stronger than our wills to look towards the future. We're so scared of leaving the comfort of the things that have already happened because we fear the unknown. No matter how hard the past may be, it's easier to trust what's already happened then to trust something we have no clue about.
But in order to move on we have to realize that we can't continue looking back. When God calls us forward, towards him, he's calling us away from those things in the past. He doesn't want us to live our lives constantly looking at Him and not looking at the things that are over.
We must always Keep Moving Forward.
Does that intro make sense now?
Keep Moving Forward.
It's a great way to live your life.
