Do you know the truth? Do you really believe it?

Jeromy 2022-09-24 21:07:51



The night before Christmas Eve, I watched Disney's "A Christmas Carol" with friends from the group, based on Dickens' novel of the same name. The film tells the story of how the rich and mean Scrooge is transformed and how people spend a merry Christmas. There is only money in his life. His friendship, love, family affection, and compassion are all buried under money. He is proud of his wealth and despises all those who have no money. What he brought to the people around him was terror, tension, and ferocious feeling. Scrooge's face is hideous, and all the good things in human beings have almost disappeared from him.

A turnaround appeared. The four ghosts that appeared one after another changed Scrooge's life. The spirit of his former partner, Marley, the spirit of the past, the spirit of the present, and the spirit of the future. The dead Marley roared at Scrooge about his current miserable life of wandering and wandering, and told him that three more ghosts would come to him and let Scrooge know his end.

In reminiscing the past, Scrooge found that the most precious thing between people that he gradually lost, also lost himself in money. In the face of the present, he finds his own despicable, pitiful and abhorrent. In the future picture, he saw a terrible ending that he could not bear but could not escape, and he fell into the bottomless abyss. He kept asking the ghost if he had a way out? The ghost didn't answer him, but just showed Skruth the visions that might appear in the future step by step. Scrooge cried out in a panic, thinking he had no chance of redemption. The truth is that he didn't fall into the bottomless abyss, but only by his own bed. He cheered.

On Christmas morning, Scrooge underwent a miraculous transformation. His housemaid thought he was insane, his employee Bob was unacceptable for his sudden generosity and kindness, and his nephew was surprised by his uncle's transformation.

What made Scrooge make such a change? He could paralyze himself and say it was just a dream, and continue to be his miser and miser. In fact, when the spirit of the past took him to recall the past, people saw that he cherished his family, pursued and cared for his lover, and worked hard to win the trust of his master. The lost warmth in him was brought back little by little. No one is born a miser. It's just that he is bound by his own selfish desires and money step by step. He lives in the safety net woven with money, which actually leads to hell. Guided by the ghost, he is forced to recognize the truth about himself and the true tragic end of his continuation. Scrooge's transformation confirms that he sees some kind of truth and really believes it.

Scrooge was fortunate enough to foresee his own end in this fantastic way, thus turning his life around. Animation is animation after all and can transcend time and space. What about ordinary people? Will what people rely on and rely on to earn is also bound by their own chains, leading to the bottomless abyss that cannot be rescued? Is the truth of life really what you think it is? I think it is always urgent to find out the truth, otherwise, every scrap of soil that man is now struggling to excavate will become a grave to bury himself.

For me, the whole truth is in the Bible. However, if you know the truth but live as if you don't know it, wouldn't the ending be more tragic than those who didn't see it, and the cause is still unbelief. Facing the fear of the end is not a matter of a ticket, but every day is like the last day to live for the Lord, because no one knows when the Lord will come.

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A Christmas Carol quotes

  • Fred: A Merry Christmas to you, uncle!

    Ebenezer Scrooge: Bah! Humbug... What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

    Fred: What reason have you to be so dismal? You're rich enough.

    Ebenezer Scrooge: BAH! Humbug!

  • Fred: Don't be cross, Uncle!

    Ebenezer Scrooge: What else can I be when I live in such a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart!

    Fred: Uncle!

    Ebenezer Scrooge: Nephew! Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.

    Fred: But you don't keep it!

    Ebenezer Scrooge: Let me leave it alone, then. Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!

    Fred: There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round - apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

    [Cratchit applauds]