enlightenment.

tonight i was sitting in the living room with my dad, and he was watching some war movie. i think that it was called "we were soldiers." he watches war movies all the time and normally i don't pay attention, but for some reason this one caught my attention. at the end of the movie it showed this diary of this Vietnamese man with a picture of his wife in it. the man who wrote it had just been killed by the Americans. what really stuck with me was that this man, who just got shot, was a human.

i don't think that i have ever thought about our enemies that way until just now. i know that this was just a movie and it was made to be dramatic but it got me. lol. in the past, war was war. it was something that we were destined to do because the bible said that in the end times there would be war. but i never thought that the people we would be fighting would be people, people like us. who have family and friends just like we do. who live a life just like me. yeah, our cultures might be different, but they are still people, and Jesus died for them too.

coming to this realization just makes me want to tell everyone about Jesus. there is no time for my petty annoyances. the Lord doesn't want us to prosper just so that we can live good lives. it is so that we will have the resources to go and tell the world that Jesus loves them. it doesn't matter what they believe in or where they are from, they are still human.

this is really changing the way i am thinking about the war in the middle east. i kind of picture them as drones. as lifeless machines that are there just for us to war against. like north Korea, for example. they have been so brainwashed that they literally are drones, but they are people too. yeah, they do not believe in Jesus and are fighting for things that i do not agree with, but that doesn't mean that i should not care about them as people or humans. a human is a human. life is priceless. and to just take that away because they are fighting for the country in which they live. i am not saying that i disagree with war, i am saying that i have been so selfish that i never realized that there were other real people in the world besides America. i have always labeled everyone else with a religion: Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist... never people, people that deserve to hear the word of God. people that the Lord loves and died for.

while is still agree with the war, i will never think of it the same way again.

i have been to Zambia, Africa and Israel. i know that there are people out there. and i care about them very much. it is the ones who hate me just because of what and who i believe in that i never saw this way before, but never again.