Joyful Ruins

I always find so many spiritual concepts and phrases every time I rewatch The Matrix.

This time around, I especially found meaning at the end of the first movie.

Neo is trying to tell Morpheus that he is not The One. Morpheus’s faith in him does not waver and he tells Neo a beautiful truth:

“There’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.”

THOUGH it takes death, love, and resurrection for Neo to accept his identity (even more spiritual truths to be unpacked there), I believe Neo took to heart these words from Morpheus.

Once Neo embraced “the path” even the laws of gravity were breakable. He believed and he was freed.

This happens too, in our walk with God, though more gradually.

We know God. We know His word. Maybe we are walking in Faith. But, there is a moment, situation, experience, that will take us from “knowing the path” (which is not really the point of faith) to “walking the path”.

We will begin to understand who we are in Christ more and that becomes us, it is who we are, no longer just who we know we are. Head to heart.

Like Neo, the more we believe, accept, embody ALL of what God says about us, Him, life, others, His future, the more we find freedom, faith, strength, and abundant life.

Neo could stop bullets. We will be able to trust wholeheartedly, see lives changed, watch miracles come to pass before our very eyes.

It’s a powerful image which takes time and intentionality partnered with God’s timing and will.

But once it clicks, it will be an ever increasing freedom. Like Neo, we might just find we can fly now.