Film Friday In the film Now You See Me, Now You Don’t, a bunch of magicians, known as The Four Horseman, find themselves in a strange house where nothing is quite what it seems. ‘Up is down, and left is right,’ they are told, and when they are chased by the cops they discover what a difference that makes. They have to adjust to this new reality as they go.
It makes me think about the new reality that Jesus introduced. Nothing was going to be quite the same again. He didn’t say up is down and left is right, but he did say the weak are strong and the poor are rich. In what we call the Beatitudes, he told everyone that the poor and grieving were blessed. This was a whole mind shift in thinking as many believed that it was the rich and successful who were on God’s side, and that if life had gone wrong for you then clearly you were being punished for your sins. But no, Jesus says the opposite, God is with those who are weak, and hurting, and lost and longing for help.
And Jesus would spend the next three years living that out, spending much of his time with those in need, those that society saw as the losers. He had come to turn everything on its head, the last would be first and the small would be great. And so it is today. I believe it was Mother Theresa who said, ‘We are not called to be successful, but to be faithful’, a saying which helps me a lot as I often wonder if I should be somehow achieving more. But in God’s currency two tiny coins can mean much more than a treasure chest of abundance. We bring what we have and we offer who we are, and God is pleased as he takes our weakness and blesses it.
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