This was the first time I watched "Forrest Gump" many years ago, and I remembered one of the lines in it. When Forrest Gump met again with a lieutenant who had been retired from the battlefield due to injury, he asked, that was the sentence. Before that, the lieutenant was a painful and grumpy man. On Christmas Eve of a certain year, he watched the lively scenes on TV, but he was drunk in front of the TV and asked A-Gump loudly: "They said that Jesus is the Savior. Where is he? Where is he? What?" Then, he fell from the wheelchair to the ground, holding the remaining upper body and crying unconsciously. A few years later, he and A-Gump ran a shrimp fishing business together. On a stormy night, on a rough sea, he climbed up the mast, yelled at the thunderous night sky, cursed God with the most nasty words, and complained about himself. A tragic experience. As a result, they harvested a lot from the next day. Since then, the shrimp fishing business has been in full swing. One evening a few years later, the lieutenant and Forrest Gump floated on the sea together, watching the sunset. He said nothing to the slowly setting sun, then turned around and said to Forrest Gump: "Hey, I never seemed to thank you, thank you for saving me from the battlefield." And before that, What he has been complaining about is that he failed to die honorably on the battlefield. After speaking, the lieutenant threw himself into the embrace of the sea, spreading his arms, enjoying the swimming in the sea, and his face was filled with joy.
The second time I watched this movie, it was after I was reconciled with God. Therefore, I finally understood that A-Gump's questioning, reconciliation with God is indeed the most important thing in a person's life.
Before I knew God, I didn't understand this. Even in my mind, there is no god at all. Who is he, what is he doing with me, why should I reconcile with him, and he and I were originally bad? I never thought about these problems. When Forrest Gump was sent to the battlefield in Vietnam, the lieutenant I met was just like I was before. He is experiencing some brilliance in his life. He is a brave officer and soldier on the battlefield. He is respected and loved by others. He is kind and stern, and has a spirit of dedication. He does not hesitate to exhaust his life for the honor and benefit of the country. I am not like him to be a pacesetter, but I have been smooth sailing since I was young, from enrollment to work, soaring upward, and my personality is not sluggish, conforms to the rules, and is not annoying. Especially for the people or things that you value or love, you will devote yourself to doing your best. The lieutenant was not until a fierce battle broke out, and after being bombed into a paralytic, his life suddenly fell. In the process of steadily ascending, I encountered the cruelty of reality and the fragmentation of dreams. Not only that, but my cognition of the whole outlook on life was blown into a phantom. From then on, life began to turn.
The amputee lieutenant was lying on the hospital bed, pulling down A-Gump who was sleeping on the clinic, and asked him angrily why he wanted to save himself. Rather than live in such a humiliating manner, he might as well die gloriously. I also complained about life like he did, and I didn't understand why the world I dreamed of turned out to be so secular. I see that I am just a negligible person, but I don’t think how great other people are. In my eyes, everyone is ridiculous. They are the masters who think they can influence the destiny of life. In fact, they are even the most realistic. The time cannot be saved. Like the lieutenant, I began to live in a difficult situation. Either he was silent in the face of reality, or he vented his inner dissatisfaction with indignation. From my past texts, I can deeply feel my despair at that time. I always want to shout desperately, longing for some echoes, but I am disappointed every time. Just as no one can understand the humiliation and wounded self-esteem of a lieutenant, I also feel that no one in this world can understand me. Even the closest relatives are the ones who can't understand me the least. If life can end here, it will be a good thing. But the cruel thing is that life does not end because of this, but has to be repeated day after day, until the heart is paralyzed. The lieutenant left the battlefield and returned to real life, eventually becoming a beggar in a wheelchair. I am also so dismal, although my appearance has not changed, according to the world's perspective, I was born in a decent family, had a decent job, and lived a leisurely life, and seemed to be moving towards a bright future. But the true heart is only I know that everything on the surface is not what I want in my heart. My heart, like a lieutenant who has become a beggar, is a lonely beggar who has to live a day. Asking for food and drink does not make a person rich, but makes the inner needs even greater. The lieutenant was trapped in the glorious memories of the past and felt sorry for himself, while I was trapped in the struggle with reality and couldn't help myself. It's like a person who is deep in a swamp. The more struggling, the deeper he sinks, but my unwillingness to compromise has become more and more determined.
On Christmas Eve, Forrest Gump was invited to the lieutenant's house. Listening to the Christmas song on TV, the lieutenant said: "Everyone shouted for Jesus, and they shouted for Jesus with their mouths shut. Did I find Jesus? They even sent people to preach the gospel to me. They said that God listens to prayer. , If I accept Jesus in my heart, I will walk into heaven with him. It’s a fart! God listens to prayer? Fart!" He cursed God and Jesus cursed. A-Gump on the side listened to his cursing, and he was silent for a while, and said: "Lieutenant, I will enter heaven." I have not experienced the lieutenant's presumptuous and rebelliousness, so when I heard these words again, I felt so A blasphemy against God. But when I encountered his appearance, it was indeed the same smooth sailing as my previous life. Like the lieutenant, I was preached the gospel. But my reaction was as straightforward as A-Gump. At that moment, I decided to go to heaven. I used to think that this was just a Western fairy tale. Until the day I heard the gospel, I didn't know that the gods in the original legend existed. Later, I discovered that not everyone agrees with me. On the contrary, many people think this is nonsense and deny his existence. I think it was God who was particularly merciful, so I accepted it so smoothly, without doubt or suspicion. I have been bored with this world for a long time, but God has given me a new hope and let me know him. I often think now that if God didn't give me this grace at the time and let me know him, my life might have gone deeper. But his appearance is like morning light, shining in my heart. My heart suddenly brightened. Although I don't recognize it, I am willing to follow closely.
The lieutenant said that Christians told him that God listens to prayer. The lieutenant has a disability. If he really wants to be healed, he must hope that he can get his legs back and return to the battlefield to show off his former style. Reason tells him that it has become impossible to stand up again. In that case, why does he need to pray to God and talk about confession and salvation? Therefore, he refused God's invitation, he refused salvation, and his salvation was to heal the body. He continued to sink into his own grievances, and he lived every day, mixing in brothels and street gangs. From a human point of view, how unfortunate it would be for him, an officer who was once reused by the country and sent to the battlefield to bravely kill the enemy, has now fallen into such a tragic situation and has become a ruffian beggar! What will happen to his life? Do you just keep going like this? The result might be a violent death on the street one day. But in my opinion, his most unfortunate one will indeed live forever in unwillingness and humiliation in his heart. The human heart decides everything. When you are happy, you feel satisfied with everything. When you are upset, you feel hard. But the human heart, only oneself knows, no one will truly understand it accurately. When I was in this situation, God showed me that, in fact, he is the person who knows me best. Because of a lot of pain, I just endured it in my heart, not knowing why it was so. Like a lieutenant, he didn't understand why this transition in life would make him feel humiliated. He just felt that his self-esteem had been hurt and there was no hope in life, but he didn't know why this happened.
I am a land duck, so I am afraid of being near the water. I had the experience of drowning in a swimming pool when I was young, and my memory at that time is still clear. I was panicked and afraid, I struggled desperately, but I was unable to help myself. In the end, it was my cousin who picked me up with one hand and sent me ashore. When I settled down, I felt quite calm, because I knew that I was saved. When God found me, I was "drowning", but he picked me up and rescued me. When I looked back, I found that the life that I had desperately wanted to break free turned out to be a hopeless situation with death as the end. The reason why I want to struggle is because I am unwilling to go to that death; the reason why I want to get rid of is because I am unwilling to continue living even knowing that I want to die. The moment I was "saved ashore", I knew that I would no longer have such a panic. From now on, I have defeated death and no longer live under its power. This is the gospel I heard and the salvation from God that I believe and personally experienced. He is not a Tathagata Buddha, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, nor Hammad, but a true and living God who gives immortality to man's soul. A person lives not only by the flesh on the outside, but on the support of the soul inside, otherwise it is a walking dead. I believe in the truth of God entirely out of his special mercy. Because I saw that many, many people, like me, were fluttering in such "water", but they didn't see that there were hands on the shore that could rescue them. They didn't even know that they were actually going to die. In other words, they are not willing to accept this salvation, and would rather work themselves until they are exhausted, sink into it, and never live.
A few months later, Forrest Gump started his shrimp fishing business, and he invited the lieutenant to join him. The lieutenant thought for a few days, but still agreed to his request. They set sail together with Yang Fan and started a new journey. But at first they didn't expect it to go so smoothly. For several months in a row, they all went off the net and became empty until the day the lieutenant cursed the sky. He is a proud man who never believes in miracles and miracles. That night, they were sailing on the sea in the storm and the lieutenant climbed to the top of the mast and shouted at the sky: "You can let this storm blow harder." Some! What a storm! Come on! It's time for you and me to showdown! I'm here to take my life!" Since the injury, he has been questioning God why he is letting him live, and now he is again Issue such a question. He wanted to seek a death, he questioned the Lord of this life, and asked him why he didn't claim his life. As a result, the next day, after the storm, they accidentally caught a boat of shrimps. Since then, every time they leave the boat, they will return with a full load. God did not directly tell the lieutenant why he was still alive. But he himself finally understood the meaning of life. One day later, he said thankful words to A-Gump, thanking A-Gump for saving him from the battlefield. What he meant was that because I was alive, I knew I was damned. When he jumped into the sea to swim, it was like jumping into the arms of God, recognizing his true nature, and letting go of all pride, selfishness, self-pity, bitterness... From then on, he was reconciled with God.
A few years later, the lieutenant brought his fiancée to attend Forrest Gump's wedding. From a distance, A-Gump looked at him, dressed in a white suit, with neat and clean hair, and a new look. What was even more unexpected was that he was walking in step by step with a cane. It was no longer the beggar who was sitting in a wheelchair and surrendered, nor was it a thug who climbed up the mast and acted arbitrarily. The lieutenant became a new man. His heart never wanted to stand up again, but God gave him a new life and revived his spirit after confronting God. Everyone experiences God's leadership differently, and I lament that the lieutenant returns to the body of life, because I myself have never had such a fierce collision. Such a rebellious and stubborn person finally returns to God and enjoys the joy. There is no other explanation except God's personal acceptance. When he said the words of thanks to Forrest Gump, I thought, in fact, he was saying to God: "You saved my life, but I have never thanked you." Only when I truly experienced God's salvation, I can also truly be grateful and say to him, thank you for being born in this world, let me live, life is only meaningful because of you.
"Life is a box of chocolates. You can't predict what flavors you will taste." At the beginning of the film, Forrest Gump said so and so. I know who owns my future, so I am sure that my life will be like this box of chocolates. No matter what I experience, whether it is ups and downs, there will be a sweet taste forever and ever. Because I have reconciled with God, He will lead me in the way ahead.
Are you willing to reconcile with God?
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