The Wachowskis’ “The Matrix” starring the young and
fresh Keanu Reeves was a groundbreaking movie if we speak about computer
generated images or digital effects. If
my memory’s still reliable as my heart is, it’s one if not the very first film
that popularized “bullet time” and used freeze-scene-then-rotate 360 degrees techniques.
I could still vividly remember how I was so much
awed by those slo-mo and quick shots where concrete walls and posts, gradually crisped
and crushed by the super bullets from Agent Smith’s group who all appeared like
ghosts. Aside from the Bible, wherein it
means ‘womb’, it was from that movie that I first encountered the word Matrix
wherein Morpheus described it as “the world that has been pulled over your eyes
to blind you from [all the truths].”
At the time, the Matrix was so very mind-boggling
indeed. Right after we had seen the
movie, I was scared to death.
Today, there’s a kind of matrix that scares everyone
around too, that is, if you are a drug lord or drug protector from the
government sector or the world of politics.
Once your name is on the list of that matrix, sorry, you’re as good as
dead, as henceforth, you would only be living like a rust, the only thing that
never sleeps.
Woe unto you, pushers and addicts, especially if you
belong to organisms and species that have discovered riches in shabu and its
omnipresent laboratories. Be sober, be
vigilant, watch out each time Digong opens a matrix because surely death is
coming your way any minute, faster than those speeding bullets.
Nevertheless, not all the time that when someone or
something opened a matrix, sadness would surge, that we must cringe in trepidation
or panic to death until we would consider jumping off the gorge. Once upon a time in Israel , when a living thing opened the matrix, the people
would rejoice with roars, as “all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling
that cometh of a beast,…. the males shall be the Lord’s (Exodus 13:12; 34:19).
Like me, being the male child who opened the matrix,
the firstborn in the family, the Law of Moses would consider me a sanctified
one for His Majesty. But after the
dispensation of grace after Christ’s death at Calvary , firstborn or not, male or female, we can only be sanctified by faith
individually (Eph. 2:8).
This is the good news, friends, in the eyes of the
Mighty God, no one is beyond redemption or excluded in His free salvation. All men and women who acknowledge their sins
and believe in Jesus as their Lord and Savior are freed from condemnation
(Rom.8:1; John 3:18)