Light and Dark.

I watched this movie with Scott last night called Seeker: The Dark is Rising. Sounds lame, but it was actually pretty good. It was a fantasy/kids movie that had magic, but then again, it wasn’t really based around magic itself. Basically the protagonist is (unbeknownst to him until he meets some people in this new town who end up helping him along his journey) ‘the seeker,’ an important role in what he soon learns is a time old battle of light versus dark. The darkness is embodied by some dude with long black hair and this kid is the ‘7th son of a 7th son’ which was something prophecied in this book only he can read, blah blah blah, BASICALLY, I was intrigued with the theme, light versus dark. It’s interesting that there can be such a common understanding, that light is good and the dark is bad. Good and bad. I find it interesting because this is all because of God and the fall of man after creation. This is nothing more than restating what C.S. Lewis already has in mere Christianity, but I believe it’s important to remember the most blatant proof of God is (and I believe His character is also shown through) the fact that there is good and bad, light and dark, warmth and cold. Dark is the absence of light, cold the absence of heat. In that same vein the world of today reflects the absence of God (of course only in the physical sense.) This earth as it is is not what we were meant for, or rather what was meant for us. It seems to be growing dimmer this world, but at the same time, where there exists despair, so exists it’s opposite, hope, and that hope for this earth has a name, Jesus.