Harry Potter and..the Pursuit of God

Even Atheists long for God.  No, they won't admit that's what they're searching for, but since God made everyone, I think there's something in all of us that seeks to draw us to him. 

In an article I read in the January 8th issue of Parade Magazine,  Daniel Radcliffe (a.k.a. Harry Potter) responds to a question about religion.  "I have a problem with religion or anything that says, "We have all the answers," because there's no such thing as 'the answers.'  We're complex.  We change our minds on issues all the time.  Religion leaves no room for human complexity."

Ahhh, young Harry, but it does.  You are right.  People are complex.  And life is hard.  As Christians, though, we have a direct line to the big man upstairs.  Jesus loves me, and that's enough. 

And so says Radcliffe, "I started to see the potential for acting as storytelling, as being part of something fundamental to human existence."  

You are right again.  We are all characters in the greatest story ever told, the one where God shows us again and again that he loves us and longs for a relationship with us.  Over and over, we turn our backs on him.  Yet, he continued to pursue us, ultimately sending Jesus here to live and die and save us from our sin so we could live forever.  You, Daniel Radcliffe, have a place in that story, too.

"What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.  I have quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that.  I haven't found it yet in acting.  Self-expression is something that I love and yearn for. "

You haven't found it in acting because the expression of your soul can only be found in the one who created it:  God.

I love the poetry of the words of Jeremiah 17:7.  In these words, we find no room for self doubt.

"But blessed is the man who 
trusts in the Lord, 
whose confidence is in him.  He will be like a tree planted 
by the water that sends out its roots by 
the stream.  It does not fear when heat 
comes;
its leaves are always green.  
It has no worries in a year of 
drought 
and never fails to bear fruit."

Radcliffe ends by saying, "I still see something very romantic in the world that perhaps isn't there."  He's sees God, but he doesn't recognize him.