My Sunday night Bible study group recently started Priscilla Shirer's Jonah study. As I was reading through Jonah the other night it made me wonder, as I often have, of how much detail is left out of what I am reading. I believe wholeheartedly that the Scriptures are God breathed and that they are entirely true. But I also know that it would have been near impossible to include every small detail. I wonder if maybe parts of conversations were left out and only the parts deemed important left in. We tend to get the facts of the situation and have to study to figure out other parts. Well, this made me hope so very much that there is a movie theater when I get to Heaven. I hope it plays the actual things that happened on earth so that I can see them as they happened. I want to witness Joshua and Caleb stand up against the 10. I want to witness Jonah in the belly of the whale. I want to witness Mary discovering the tomb was empty. I want to witness Daniel in the lion's den. I want to witness Shadrach, Meshach and Abednigo (spelling may be off) in the fiery furnace. I want to witness Moses decending from the mountain. (I would say him receiving the commandments but I believe that is a Moses and God moment I probably won't ever be allowed to see, too personal.) I want to witness Rahab hiding the spies and ultimately sealing her place in history. I want to witness the love story between Boaz and Ruth. This list could go on and on and on. Yes, we have movies that have attempted to portray these things but I believe what really happened is so much more powerful than that. The emotions involved could never be accurately portrayed. How cool would it be to watch the movie and then have them stand up and speak?!?! Hearing Bathsheba testify as to how God took that mistake she made and made her spiritually clean and then allowed her to be included in the lineage of Jesus Christ. Don't tell me that wouldn't be a shoutin' meeting in Heaven! I know, there is no sin allowed into Heaven and no sadness, but I believe there is testifying to the goodness, grace, and mercy of Christ. I believe we won't feel our guilt there but we will feel the gratitude that resulted from our guilt. I cannot wait to sit and hear these amazing heroes of the faith testify about their Jesus. WHOA! I wanna shout in my seat right now! Praise God! Can't you just see Jesus sitting at the back of a huge auditorium taking all of this in. Smiling ear to ear. Just a crowd of people taking turns to give witness about what God did for them. Watching the movie with His children, going "yes, I remember that....oh you were stubborn, but I knew how it would end. Now go on up there and speak up! Let them know how good your personal victory was." Oh, I cannot wait! Maybe none of this will happen. I may not get a movie. BUT something tells me there will be a whole lot of testifying!
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