Follow you, learn to love

Jessika 2022-03-26 08:01:01

Although it is produced by the same film company as Facing the Giants, it also has a very strong religious connotation;
although the first half of the film is a little dull and the preaching seems to be a little more preachy, overall, it is a very good film.

Especially brothers and sisters in marriage and those who are about to enter marriage.
Marriage is really a big task for us, and I believe that couples in marriage will experience it.
I believe it would be a lie if a couple said we were happy with each other, that we loved each other from the first day we met until death separated us.
Just as people will meet "giants" in their growth, there are also such battles in the journey of marriage. The temptation of the outside world, the change of each other's values ​​and the inability to play in the same way, the loss of interest in studying each other after marriage, etc., will hinder us from having A truly happy family life.

And as Genesis chapter 2 verse 24 says, a man leaves his father and mother and joins his wife, and the two become one flesh. I am convinced that God created men and women with His deep meaning. Only by "unity" can we become complete. Husbands and wives have been together for a long time to help each other grow, and to make each other a more beautiful, pure and complete person.
Facing these marital problems together and solving them together is one way for a marriage to grow.

When the male protagonist in the movie accepted the "40 Days of Love Challenge" attempt in order to love his father deeply, in the first 20 days, he was just doing it for his father and himself, because he did not Know what true love is like.
It is you who reject the other party again and again, but the other party still loves you;
it is that you are not worthy of the other party to love you, but the other party still loves you;
it is that you even laugh at this love, but the other party still loves you. . .
This is Jesus' love for us.

But we can't do it. When our love and dedication are not reciprocated by the other party, we are angry, complaining and accusing;
when we measure each other and feel that the other party is not as good as before, and that the other party does not deserve us, We choose to seek out what we think is better;
That's because we haven't truly loved someone from the heart.

So when the male host repents before the Lord and asks for forgiveness, he begins to know how to listen to each other, study each other, care for each other, meet each other's needs, and do things that make them happy regardless of gain or loss. Instead of thinking that she is a captain in the fire brigade and a hero in the eyes of everyone, she can go home and be a bad husband for granted;
and that wife, when she sees in this man the miraculous change the Lord has inflicted, She chose to go back to marriage and was willing to let this change happen to herself.

At the end of the movie, the wife came to her husband's fire brigade for the first time, across the square of the fire brigade, she came over from a distance and said:
If I didn't tell you, say you are a good person; you are;
if I didn't tell you I have passed you and said I love you; I do;
if I didn't tell you that I have forgiven you; I have forgiven you....

Really touching.
This is the blessing of the Lord, the love of the Lord, and the glory of the Lord: because only he can do it.

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  • Vincent 2022-03-29 09:01:10

    Deduct one star for ubiquitous religious persuasion, plus one star for Mike Seaver

  • Uriah 2022-03-26 09:01:15

    Very touching, very inspiring! Support us when we are weak.

Fireproof quotes

  • Catherine Holt: What are you doing?

    Caleb Holt: I see you left me no pizza.

    Catherine Holt: Caleb, I just lit that candle. I like the way it smells.

    Caleb Holt: Well, I don't! Did you leave me any dinner at all?

    Catherine Holt: I assumed you were eating with Michael.

    Caleb Holt: Does it not occur to you that there are two people living in this house and both of them need to eat?

    Catherine Holt: You know what, Caleb, if you would communicate with me, maybe I can have something for you.

    Caleb Holt: Why do you have to make everything so difficult?

    Catherine Holt: Oh, I'm making everything difficult? Seems to me like I'm carrying the weight around here while you're off doing your own thing.

    Caleb Holt: Excuse me? I'm the one working out there to pay this mortgage, and I pay for both of the cars.

    Catherine Holt: Yeah, that's all you do! I pay for all of our bills with my salary!

    Caleb Holt: Which you agreed to do. That's fair! Do you not like this house? Do you not like your car?

    Catherine Holt: Oh, Caleb, who takes care of this house? Me! Who washes all the clothes? Me! Who gets all the groceries? Me! Not to mention that I'm helping my parents every weekend! You know I've got all this pressure on me, and the only thing you ever do for anybody is for yourself!

    Caleb Holt: Let me tell you something: you don't know the first thing about pressure. All right, you think I put out house fires for myself? Or rush to car wrecks at 2AM for myself? Or pull a child's body out of a lake for myself? You have no idea what I go through!

    Catherine Holt: Oh, yeah, but what do you do around here other than watch TV and waste time on the Internet? You know what? If looking at that trash is how you get fulfilled, that's fine, but I will not compete with it!

    Caleb Holt: Well, I sure don't get it from you!

    Catherine Holt: And you won't! Because you care more about saving for your stupid boat and pleasing yourself than you ever did about me!

    Caleb Holt: SHUT UP! I'M SICK OF YOU! YOU DISRESPECTFUL, UNGRATEFUL, SELFISH WOMAN!

    Catherine Holt: I'm not selfish...

    Caleb Holt: HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT TO ME! YOU CONSTANTLY NAG ME AND YOU DRAIN THE LIFE OUT OF ME! I'M TIRED OF IT! IF YOU CAN'T GIVE ME THE RESPECT I DESERVE... LOOK AT ME! THEN WHAT'S THE POINT OF THIS MARRIAGE?

    Catherine Holt: I want out. I just want out.

    Caleb Holt: If you want out, THAT'S FINE WITH ME!

  • Latasha Brown: Honey, I agree with you. You gotta get out. He don't deserve you.

    Deidra Harris: You can say that again. A real man's got to be a hero to his wife before he can be to anybody else, or he ain't a real man.

    Ashley Phillips: Catherine, do you need a place to stay? I can't imagine living in the same house as that man.

    Catherine Holt: No, I decided last night that I am not the one who's leaving. He's the problem, not me.

    Deidra Harris: That's right, girl, stand your ground. Make him respect you. If there's one thing a man understands...

    Caleb Holt: [Cuts to Caleb and Michael, discussing the same situation] ... .it's respect. That's the issue. That's the reason our marriage is failing. She shows me no respect at all. And the saddest part about it is...

    Catherine Holt: [Cuts back to Catherine and her group of friends] He doesn't have a clue. He thinks our marriage has been fine for the most part. You know, he probably thinks...

    Caleb Holt: [Cuts to Caleb and Michael] Our marriage has been fine until this year. Now all of a sudden she goes off the deep end.

    Michael Simmons: Do you really think this happened all of a sudden?

    Caleb Holt: I don't know what to think. I don't understand her. She's emotional about everything, she's easily offended, and way too sensitive.

    Catherine Holt: [Cuts to Catherine, starting to sob] I mean, he's so insensitive. You know, he doesn't truly care how I feel, he doesn't listen to me. Even if I say it over and over and over again.

    Caleb Holt: [Cuts to Caleb and Michael] And then she starts nagging me and saying I don't listen to her... or something like that. It drives me crazy. I feel like I'm going...

    Catherine Holt: [Cuts to Catherine] Insane. You know, he doesn't understand my needs. It feels like we are completely and totally...

    Caleb Holt: [Cuts to Caleb and Michael] Incompatible. She's probably whining to her friends, making me sound like a criminal. I can see them all right now: crying, having some sort of group hug.

    Latasha Brown: [Cuts back to the women crowded around Catherine, comforting her, giving her a group hug] It's gonna be OK, sweetie. It's gonna be all right.

    Ashley Phillips: You'll get through this.

    Deidra Harris: We have your back. Whatever you want. Whatever you need. Whatever you need.

    Michael Simmons: [Cuts to Caleb and Michael] So, you think it's past the point of no return?

    Caleb Holt: I don't have a reason to return.