I just finished watching the movie “August Rush” for the
second time and am thinking about buying it. If you haven’t seen it you should, it is a little
unrealistic but the music and story make up for it. Besides, I have been learning more is realistic than I ever
thought possible.
The movie is about a little boy who is a musical prodigy
that gets separated from his parents at birth. The father doesn’t know he exists and the mother doesn’t
know he is alive. His stage name is August Rush, and he claims that he hears his parents communicating to
him through the music. The viewer
watches as music helps them find each other.
The most heartbreaking part of the story is when a man named
Wizard, who is abusive and caring for August only for his own purposes, asks
him, “What do you want to be in the world? I mean the whole world. What do you want to be? Close your eyes and think about it,” and August replies,
“Found.”
I can’t help but think what all the orphans in the world,
all 240 million of them, would reply with if asked the same question. I think every one of them would have
the same answer.
August’s
parents wanted him. This isn’t
usually the case. Often they are
dead, too selfish to want the child, or just don’t think they have anything to
give them. This reality seems too
much to handle, 240 million who just want to be found and no one who seems to
want to find them.
But then there is a beautiful secret, a holy secret. A secret that longs to be disclosed. They do have someone who wants to find
them; a man who wants to be their Father and is a King. This man wants to welcome them into His
royal palace and have a relationship with them. And through music, and beautiful sunsets, and reflections of
His character He communicates with them and tells them this (“…since the
creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine
nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made…”
Romans 1: 20).
But you know who He wants to use the most to tell this truth? You and I. He wants to use the hands and feet of those who are already
His children. He sends out the
spiritual orphans who have found homes in Jesus to go out and bring the other
orphans in. How beautiful this
relationship, how beautiful this truth, that God is whispering to us and to all
the orphans in the world, “Come live with Me my beloved daughter, come be with
Me my worthy son, I want you and am all that you’ve been looking for and
more.”
There is hope orphan!
There is hope widow! There
is hope outcast! Let’s pray that
all the forgotten would have their longings satisfied as they are found by
their Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ.
