Last night, a few of us from our Harvest staff went to see U23D. National Geographic partnered with them to do a new form of 3D that has never been used in concert format before.
U2 3D: The First Live-Action 3D Concert Movie, Featuring U2 -- National Geographic
U2, of course, is the Irish band that over the past 25 years has imprinted music across the board. The "U2 sound", anthem-like, was a big inspiration for some of the most popular worship songs of the past 10 years.
So we got our glasses and on it comes.
I could hear my wife go "wowww..." as the promo to the new Narnia movie was shown in 3d. The problem was: ......the 3d effects werent working for me!
For whatever reason, my eyes don't register the full effect of 3d. Last year we saw "Polar Express" in 3d. Same thing. I sat the entire movie only seeing in 1 dimension. Remember the holograms that you stared at the picture until the 'picture within the picture' was seen??
Never worked for me.
I would stare and stare and stare some more. For whatever reason, my eyes don't register it.
Needless to say, it is and was last night deeply frustrating. Dont get me wrong: The concert was great, as Bono is one of the best stage performers ever. I was amazed at how much of their music is political, quasi-religious, but, hey, they are Irish....what do you expect??? :)
I drove home thinking about how in the same way my eyes couldn't fully pick up the 3d, many are in churches every Sunday who go faithfully, but they don't fully see the grace of God, the mercy of God, displayed at Calvary's Cross.
As Jesus said, "They have eyes, but but cannot see......ears, but cannot hear." Their SPIRITUAL eyes, the 'eyes of their hearts', as Jesus called them, have not been activated.
They remain in darkness, though outwardly religious.
We need to pray for a Great Awakening. As John Wesley said over 200 years ago, "The greatest mission field sit in church pews every week."
God wants ALL to see! He wants ALL to 'come to repentance and a knowledge of the truth"!
To Seeing,
PB