It’s action-packed! It’s suspenseful! From fighting to setting off alarms to anticipating what the enemy is up to next, Jason Bourne is constantly on the move. Explosives dominate the screen as fires erupt in all directions potentially harming him. Screeching tires, jumping from roofs to roofs and leaping into oceans are part of the action in this five-part movie franchise. They’re heart-stopping, foot stomping, and hand-shakin’ movies. Kind of hard to peacefully eat popcorn when someone unexpectedly crashes through a window. But that’s how the movies are!
Jason Bourne is a spy, an agent trained in combat-fighting, and brainwashed to kill his opponents. But now all agents have been sent by the agency he represents to annihilate him because he’s feared to be a threat if he chooses to expose them.
Bourne’s true identity has been hid from him as well as the agency’s (true) motives behind his assignments. He’s been repeatedly lied to. He’s been given several new identities. He’s no longer David Webb, he’s Jason Bourne always on the run. It seems that at every corner there’s a parked car watching him. His conversations are tracked, his every move monitored, his actions questioned. The agency refuses him rest. He’s hounded from country to country. When will it end?
Our lives run similar patterns. We are being monitored and watched. China has some 560 million cameras installed in public places across the country monitoring everyone’s move. About one billion surveillance cameras will be installed globally this year or in the years to come. Cell phone towers can pinpoint phone pings as well. On the positive side, these technological advances can be extremely helpful in solving crimes, kidnappings, mysterious disappearances, etc. But, used for intruding in our lives, or spying what we do or where we go, isn’t the same thing.
In general, society lies to us in the use of these things. They know our I.D. They question who we are. We are told we are different. Our purposes in life are challenged. We are told it’s alright to engage in things that are dishonorable to God whether you believe in Him or not. Society wants you to believe you came from an orangutan playing with a boomerang in the Yucatan, as opposed to being created by the Creator.
Todays’ youth in particular, lives on social media. They die on social media. Many have their lives dictated by comments followers post. People are kept in the dark to the realities around their lives. While these media-forms aren’t bad inventions, we need to know there’s more to life than living as others want us to, or being afraid others will now know about our lives and our choices.
The “Agency,” Satan’s kingdom, has agents hounding us where we go and what we do. Restlessness follows many leading oftentimes to suicide. His goals are to silence us. He doesn’t want his agency’s true agenda revealed to the world. He aims to change our identities; he wants us on the run filled with anxiety. He wants his agents persecuting us country to country. He wants us hiding in darkness wondering who we are or why we are here. When he’s informed that there’s an agent down another one will take its place. We may doubt our life’s purpose, but rest assured God knows what’s going on and why.
He wants us to remain a Jason Bourne-a man/woman with a blurred past going nowhere. But as great as the movies are and as great as Bourne is as a character (I love his movies), you don’t have to be a Bourne. You can, instead, be Born. Born again. Born from above, born from the Spirit (John 3:3,5).
In Christ you will have a new identity-be a new creation (2Corinthians 5:17). You can walk in the Light as He is in the light (1John 1:7). You can expose the evil deeds of the devil. You can train for spiritual combat against the principalities of darkness. When, through prayer and fasting you bring down his agents, and though he sends in more, you can defeat them all through your war-cry of victory in Christ. You can call for backup down on your knees from God’s innumerable army. (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” (2Corinthians 10:4,5). You can run from rooftop to rooftop proclaiming the Good News that Jesus is King! When his demonic agents get you down, God’s angels will minister to you. In the spiritual realm Satan will light fires beneath you and around you. He’ll drown you with sorrow, temptations, accusations, lies and deceit, but with God’s help you will overcome them. Sign up today to become a Special Agent for Christ’s Kingdom. Tell Him, “I will do whatever You want me to do and I will go where needed to do what You ask.” His response to your mission:
“Fear not; for I am with you, be not dismayed; for I am your God: I will strengthen you: yea, I will help you; yea, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness” (Isaiah 41:10). “Fear not: for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon you” (Isaiah 43:1b,2). Doubt not God’s purposes for your life. You’re an agent for the largest Agency worldwide.
Enjoy your popcorn…
God Bless!
Sam