THE MATRIX

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)

Even if in the past they were verified long-time notorious drug lords, protectors, pushers and addicts.  As angels rejoice over one soul that repents, for he is the Lord’s, regardless of who opened the matrix (Luke 15:7,10).