Recently the movie adaptation of the highly acclaimed
Broadway musical Les Miserables has come out. If you haven’t seen the play or
the movie, I would highly recommend you go do so. The setting is during the
French Revolution and the main character is a man who was put in jail for
trying to feed his family and his journey to find redemption and salvation.
(The dork in me says you should go just for the music)
There is however a very strong message at the end of the
story that I had forgotten until I recently saw the movie adaptation. There is
a line in one of the final songs that goes:
“To love another person is to see the face of God”
If I had to sum up the gospel into one word it would be
love. Too often we forget that loving someone is one of the most important
things that we can do as a Christian. The fact remains that each and every one
of us (good, bad, skinny, fat, male , female) are all created in the image of
God. That is something incredibly special that we should not so easily forget.
So my request to you this week is this: First, go see Les
Miserables (it’s money well spent); Second, show love to your neighbor because
as the song says “to love another person is to see the face of God!”
