So do you like Romance movies? Have you ever seen a movie ending like this before?
It’s a busy airport day. Alex steals a Segway from a security agent who naps on the job. He weaves his way upstream through the sea of passengers scurrying the corridor walkway to get to their gates. Alex approaches the gate where Ginger, the love of his life, hands the ticket agent her one way ticket to Paris. She steps onto the jet bridge about to embark on her new adventure. Alex calls out to her, in one last cry of desperation before she leaves for good.
Alex: Ginger, marry me!
Ginger quickly turns around and sees Alex now off the Segway and down on one knee.
Ginger: It’s no good Alex, even if I did love you, I could never marry an alligator!
Alex: But Ginger, if it’s about my spiraling gambling debts, I promise I’ll pay back every penny. And those rumors about my father being a ruthless war profiteer and my mother an alcoholic taxi dancer are all lies, I tell you. Lies!!!
Ginger: But what about my muffins? You burnt my muffins. No man I ever loved has ever burnt my muffins.
Alex: I don’t give a hill of beans about your muffins! All I know is that I love you Ginger and this is our hill and these are our beans! What about all those special moments we shared? Like the time we wet our noses and stuck them in light sockets? Doesn’t it mean anything to you? And what about our song?
He starts to sing, “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” from the Wizard of Oz.
Ginger: Shut up! Shut up, you had me at beans! You had me at beans!
They thrust themselves into each other’s arms and kiss passionately.
-The End-
Okay, maybe you’ve never seen a movie with such Oscar Award winning dialogue as that but I’m sure we’ve all seen these romantic movies with the proverbial Hollywood ending. You know the proverbial Hollywood ending? The guy and girl break up and separate and then the guy has a change of heart and then chases after the girl on his white steed and crosses over the proverbial bridge to win over her heart. Whether we want to admit it, we all love the Romantic chase scenes. Why, because secretly isn’t that what we all want? We all want to be loved, sought after and pursued by someone who loves us and desires us. That’s why Hollywood makes these pictures. Did you know as believers we are being pursued everyday by our loving Father God? In Psalm 139, the Psalmist talks about not being able to escape God’s presence. He says,
“Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.” Here we see a picture of a man that wherever he goes, there is nowhere he can escape God. God is always present and wherever he goes, God ends up following Him there. We also see this in Psalm 23. Not only does our Great Shepherd lead us through the paths of life but it also says, “surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life”. The Hebrew word for “follow” is “Radaph”. It means to continually chase, pursue, closely attend to. That’s our God for us, He is always pursuing us with the intention of capturing us with His love and everlasting kindness and continually attends to us all the days of our lives. Last I checked the Bible, all the days of our lives is not just on this earth but forever. He will never stop pursuing us with His love even in the next life to come. With our God, there is no proverbial Hollywood ending, just endless scenes of new beginnings, a happily ever after that lasts forever. Now that’s a Hollywood ending that not even Hollywood could ever come up with.
Psalm 23:6
“Surely your goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
forever.”