In anticipation of the upcoming Indiana Jones movie this May, my family decided to watch one movie of the trilogy each month, for the next three months, obviously coming to a climax in may with the fourth installment. So today, we ordered some pizza and sat down as a family to enjoy the first movie of the trilogy: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I won’t try to pull anything particularly spiritual out of the movie, although I’m sure that it could be found; I think I’d probably be forcing something. One little thing I would like to note about the movie is the obvious spiritual implications of archeologists finding the Ark of the Covenant. I haven’t seen the movie in about eight or nine years and this is definitely the first time having seen the movie as a Christian. And something I never noticed before was that, while it treated the Ark as something superstitious, in the end it ended up having an immense amount of power attached to it. The impression at the end is clearly something like, “don’t mess with God.”
Obviously “don’t mess with God” is a very incomplete picture but it is certainly a part of the picture and it’s rare to see that at all acknowledged in any kind of media.
I am also thankful to God for the chance to spend time as family. I am especially privileged to continue to do so as our family has grown older and we have all become adults.
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