EPIC created by God

by: Sherwood Oaks production based on book by John Eldredge

Epic...Once upon a time....a story full of battles and beautiful promises. There are heroes and villains, counterfeits and kings. The world is submerged in a hidden reality that can only be unlocked by a powerful unseen truth. this is the EPIC.

Everything seems to be perfect in a story but everything is not what it seems. There's darkness underneath that perfectness. There's villain and heroes. More often than not, the hero must die for the beloved to live for example, Jack in the titanic. Though we must endure tragedy but as long as it is a happy ending at the end, we are willing to endure tragedy in the middle.

Question: why do we always long for a happy ending story? is it prewired in ourselves to long for that such ending ? if you think about it, this is why hollywood's productions are selling like popcorn. they are basically using our longing for beautiful ending as their core business. When we are left hanging in a storyline, we feel unsatisfied and we are curious to know the ending to the story we are watching. what do we usually see in a story? usually the first setting will skim ove a very perfect setting.
Answer: We are genetically designed by God for eternity, we are designed for heaven. That's why we always long for more of this world. We long to know our own happy ending, we long to know what will happened in our live next.

In the world where everything is so wrong, we long for the peace. We believe that there's still good in this world and we become more focus on the good side and deny the evil aspect. We are very focused on the heroes and all the happy ending stories but are we denying the existence of evil? The consequences it brings in our lives? Do evil exist in a much more subtle than we want to think? Do we take evil to lightly? we even make them into cartoon just for the fun of it. Evil takes on various shapes. Sometimes it is just a new object that trigger jealousy and the urge to possess within a peaceful community. But we rarely contributes these negativeness to the work of evil. We should know that evil is closer than we think. It is constantly battling the good in us. In our 24 hours, devil never cease or rest to taunt and tempt us into what he wants us to do. To drive us further away from our Beloved but remember that God is our 24 hours hotline counseling we can rely to always be there when we need encouragement, to be our shoulder to cry on and someone to rely on.

The battle between good and evil is not an easy conflict within. It is a raging war inside of you and this following story will tell a story about the consequences of our decision. A naughty child has been warned by his teacher that he's not to take out a plastic hammer around the class because of its sharp end. But during recess, he take a position on the top of the spin and he ask this question which is the same question eve asked in the garden of eden. "Can i trust my teacher?" "Can i trust God?" Evil won and Eve bit in the fruit of knowledge. Evil won and this child took the hammer out while standing on the top of a spin. Lo and behold, after several spin, the hammer slipped out of his hand and knock the eye of another kid. Blood spill over the playground and his teacher took him to another teacher to wait for her while she mended the wounded child. This guilty boy start sobbing and asking for his teacher though he know he's guilty. When he see his teacher, the teacher kneel down and open her arms wide to received the sobbing child with hammer on his hand. God long for us to come back to him though we have done so many things that shows our distrust to him. When we finally choose to come back home, He's always there arms wide open to receive and love us.

At the end we always long for a happy ending. When Gladiator ends with Maximus' death, we sigh happily when we finally saw his wife and son coming towards him because we believe that there's more to the story than what is portrayed in the movie. When Jack in titanic died for Rose to live, we know what Rose will forever treasure her life and Jack's love. What about us? we long for eternity. We long for heaven. At the end we long for the happy ending with the One who created us. This is our own journey. This is our story. This is our own Epic created by God. And we have a role to play ..............play it right!