“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired”- Robert Frost

Okay, I know this isn’t always the best thing but I am an avid movie watcher. It goes back to my dad and I. When I was younger we would always go to a movie and have dinner. It was like a dad date. As I got older and moved away from my family whenever I would come home my dad and I would still do our “dad date”. We loved watching movies together and discussing them. Then my dad would send me the movies we enjoyed (or the ones I did) on DVD. So I have a big collection. My dad passed away a little over a year ago and I can’t help but still do my dad dates even if I go with friends or alone. It makes me think of my dad and miss him…

Anyway today I got out of school early and decided to see a movie I know my dad would have watched. 10,000 BC. I have to say I really enjoyed it. It was nothing like I thought it would be. Spoiler alert…

It was really a love story. It was about a man who is in love with a girl in his tribe. They love each other for a long time (as in most love stories, there has to be a problem) but he has to “win” the hunt to be able to have her. Always the girl is out of reach. So he pursues the hunt and doesn’t win her fairly so he “gives her up”. She of course is devastated. She loves him and wants to be with no other. He had to chose between letting her go and doing the honorable thing for his tribe. She feels hurt that he has “given her up”. This is all in the first part of the movie. Well they are attacked and she is taken with many of the tribes’ men. So what does the man who loves her do? Pursue her of course. Just like all women, she longs to be pursued by the man she loves. She believes in him and knows he will come for her. So he does, and he goes through many courageous things to pursue his love. He is willing to die for her. He also comes to realize the man he truly is and knows that they are worthy of each other. Not just one worthy of the other but both are worthy. I love that. I think often in our world we think we are not worthy or that we are too worthy of the other. But they were worthy of each other. I love the warrior in this movie, he pursues his love until the ends of the earth and joins with others to fight for a cause to help everyone. He is brave and courageous. He is a true warrior.

I think about Jesus in this scenario. How He pursues us, over the ends of the earth. He calls us worthy of Him for He has chosen us. Isn’t that what we all desire, to be chosen, picked, wanted, for who we are and how God has made us? I love that. Jesus pursues us, goes where we go, helps us to see who we really are. He even gives Simon the name Peter to tell him he knows that he is the Rock. God knows us already- He knows who we are to be. It is up to us to step out and move forward. The warrior in the movie had to find his own courage to follow his heart and pursue the girl. I wonder what God is calling us to pursue?