Normally I don’t go to theaters to watch movies that
have feel-good messages that will bring me to tears. I want action, eye-candy of special effects,
and all that jazz. I joke about Star
Wars bringing me to tears of enjoyment but those are fake. Rarely does a movie move my soul. Then I saw “The Shack”, and while during the
movie I stifled back tears, once I got to my car the dams opened as the river
of tears cascaded down my face.
“The Shack” is a powerful movie. It will probably not receive any awards from
the secular Academy Awards but it will reward those who see it with a powerful
message of forgiveness, healing, and love.
It’s a powerful message that is forgotten in today’s tolerance-driven
free-for-all drivel we are being forced to swallow.
The so-called controversy being pronounced by
theologians and detractors surrounding “The Shack” because it has God as a
woman misses the meaning of the ultimate message behind the movie. God appeared to the character named “Mack” as
a woman whom he remembered from childhood.
In other words, God appeared as someone familiar to Mack. I wholeheartedly believe spoke to me through
Sister Judy Scroggs that morning so long ago when I was sixteen eating at her
breakfast table. God appeared as a
burning bush to Moses. God will do what
He must do to reach us. God even told
Mack in the movie that, “With what you’re dealing with I didn’t think you
needed a father right now.” Mack has
father issues, and perhaps if God had appeared to him as a father, Mack would
have rejected Him. Something to think
about before you rip the book/movie to shreds because it doesn’t line up with
your old man God theory.
With that theological discourse aside, I highly
recommend this movie. I need to read the
book it is based on. I wept in my car
praying to God to forgive me for the hurt I had been carrying, and I started
praying forgiveness towards those who had done me wrong. I highly recommend this movie to any
Christian who is struggling with betrayal.
If you’re not a Christian, then I highly recommend this movie to truly
understand the nature of God versus the accusatory myths you have about Him.
