No, i'm not talking about the Chris De Burgh song, that one is actually Lady in Red(1986).
I'm referring to a minor character from a scene from the 99 hit "pop culture affecting, industry changing, turned out to be plagiarized", movie THE MATRIX. (there's only one Matrix, the others are Fa(ke)trix,Wa(ck)trix)
There is a scene where Morpheous(Lawrence Fishburne) is guiding Neo(Keanu Reeves) through the the rush hour streets in matrix. He talks as he walks , revealing to him(Neo) the world they are in;how it functions, the dangers ahead.
Struggling to keep up Neo is suddenly takes his eyes off Morpheous as he's distracted by a beautiful woman in a red dress, that walks by with a sweet smile. Morpheous , notices and queries
MORPHEOUS: Were you pay attention, or were looking at the woman in the red dress
NEO:Huh
MORPHEOUS Look again
Neo spins around to find Agent Smith at point blank range with a Glock 22, the room freezes as Neo's heart was in his mouth
While this is not an endorsement for the movie, one can take a vital lesson from it. Neo got distracted, by what seemingly looked amazing, (which she actually did). He took his eyes off his leader and if it had been a real situation, that would have been "bye bye Neo".
No, this not a rant against beautiful women that wear red dresses,lol , this analogy applies both to males and females, we all have our points of temptation,disillusion and distraction.
Morpheus also said something very striking in that scene "If you are not one of us,you are one of them". the "them" refered to those still plugged into the system of "The Matrix" and could be used by agents at any point in time to bring down the resistance.
In spiritual terms , that refers to "children of this world" those that live by the constantly changing declining and fickle philosophy, standards and ideals of a God denying and often God hating world.
They are still plugged into the system of what is culturally or socially acceptable,but against the will of God, whether that be pre marital or casual sex, abortion ,drunkenness, lewd behavior and language, hedonism, cultural "christianity", alternative lifestyles and other lifestyle to that effect as mentioned in 1 Corinthians 6:9 .
Some people actually think they are unplugged, attend the services, speak the slang, wear the t shirts, but their lives show no evidence that they are free
by their fruits you shall know them grapes do not grow on thistles
They intellectually acknowledge God, but their hearts and consequently their lifestyles are far from any acknowledgment him. Others have no idea of the system they are trapped in and don't realize what lies ahead if they stay in this system.
Unlike the movie, we aren't in a simulation, we are in the real world, where "we wrestle not against flesh and blood", if we get distracted the room won't freeze to give us a chance recompose and change strategy and keep in mind, the enemy does not take prisoners.
We have to keep our eyes on the Cross , which is our GPS(Sat Nav) in our journey through this world. It's our obligation to unplug as many friends, family ,colleagues from the system of this world just like we were once unplugged; but we also have to remember that anyone not unplugged posses a danger to our spiritual progression if we get distracted by them.
Many of us would already have had an "i should have known" moment ,at least once or even several times in our life already from distractions we have experienced
This may be a love interest, relationship, career pursuit or passion for anything else that can take us off tangent; it would vary with each person, we all have to search ourselves using the scripture as a compass and find out,what is our "Lady in the red dress" could possibly be, before sashays into our line of sight.
"The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it
-PROVERBS 27:12
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