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I recently rediscovered this series from 2011.  I recommend checking it out if you aren't familiar.  Something different will stand out to each person that watches it.  Two of my favorite parts are in the beginning and near the end.

There's a part where Francis Chan compares a child/parent relationship to following God, and I may not truly understand God until I'm a parent myself, but he created a pretty good picture.  He told his daughter to go clean her room.  Does he want his daughter to say, "I memorized the words you told me"?  No.  Does he want his daughter to form a small group and study the sentence: 'clean her room'?  No.  He wants her to go clean her room.

How often is that my attitude?  Read the Bible.  Study it.  Memorize it, but do not live it.  The Bible says to trust Him to provide for my every need.  Do my actions display my trust?  Or do I worry?  The Bible says to love and forgive.  Do I hold anger and unforgiveness in my heart?  If you look closely, it's there.

Father forgive me.  Help me.

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The other part I like is near the end.  [Spoiler alert if you're worried about that sort of thing.]  One of the characters decides that while their current situation is nice, and certainly nicer than where they were, there is still work to be done.

Joshua 14:6-15
6 Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him: “You know the word which the Lord said to Moses the man of God concerning you and me in Kadesh Barnea. 
7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart. 
8 Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the Lord my God. 
9 So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’ 
10 And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old. 
11 As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in. 
12 Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall be able to drive them out as the Lord said.”
13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance. 
14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel. 
15 And the name of Hebron formerly was Kirjath Arba (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim).  Then the land had rest from war.


I love the story of Caleb.  He wholly followed the Lord.  Let us not just read.  Let us follow.  At the end, let it be said of us that we wholly followed the Lord.

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