Over the past week I watched the movie “Father of Lights”, which is essentially about a group of Christians going from country to country spreading God’s love to people and baring fruit as God calls his children to. As I watched it I found myself constantly doubting the miracles that we’re shown in this movie. In the film there was a Christian man named Todd who was healing people in Jesus’ name. To me this seemed staged and was what challenged me the most in this film. It’s not hard to get people to fake being sick or partly crippled and then pretend to be healed.
However, as I watched and thought about what I was seeing more and more I slowly began to accept the fact all the miracles in this movie were real. As I did the movie revealed to me and reconfirmed a characteristic of God. God’s omnipresence. The film also addressed a misconception I had of God. Which was that God still does do miracles through his followers. Before watching this movie I believed miracles were some of the rarest things on Earth. I also believed God almost never used his followers to do miracles. I thought that was more of a Biblical thing.
In this film the group of Christian use what I believe is the best strategy for evangelizing. When I see someone using this strategy of evangelism, which can be considered loving someone into the God’s kingdom or being the light in presence of complete darkness, it feels as though God has sends a surging bolt of electricity through my spirit, refreshing me and filling me with joy.
Out of the many stories in this film there were three that struck me the most. The first was the story about the Christians condemning nonbelievers and the Christian Group spreading God’s love to them instead of judging them. This struck me, because I often judge those kinds of Christians and consider them stubborn, stupid Christians who have misinterpreted the Bible the most. Another one of the stories that struck me was the one of the Guru. I found this story so amazing. It was fascinating to me that after years of searching for God, it was God who found the Guru. Because in the end God sent one of his followers to look for the Guru and tell him about Jesus. Last but not least the many stories of Todd healing people struck me probably the hardest, because like I said before I did not believe people like this really existed anymore.
After seeing this movie it has caused me to examine my own life and walk with God. And if there’s one thing I want do different now, it would be spend more time with God. I almost never spend time reading the Bible on my own and rarely pray or even communicate with God.
Feering Seery Geerlers 