On a flight back to Melbourne from Prague, I watched the movie Moneyball and loved it. I really enjoyed Brad Pitt’s character and the soundtrack to the movie. I’m one for emotive compositions which accompany parts of a film building the atmosphere to ‘grand finale moments’. Where all seems lost and then, as if riding on the back of the musical flow, our hero or heroes inch toward triumph. So Moneyball roped me in. As I mentioned before, Brad Pitt’s character, Billy Beane, was fantastic to watch. He had an expectant faith about him. He was patient. And he believed in something that went far deeper than what the world would present to us as reality. He stripped back all the glitz and pomp, and concentrated on specific talents, bringing them altogether systematically to function in their role as part of a team. Like Jesus and his church. Many body parts, one body. All equally important to the team function.
I was listening to the stirring soundtrack and wondered why it connected with me. I tried to process the fact that God had created me that way, and my enjoyment of music was not only a gift, but a way in which God could love me, inspire me and communicate with me. I could envisage the Lord’s voice sounding like a powerful musical score. As the best composition of the soundtrack played on my stereo I looked at my iPod to see what it was called; “It’s a Process”. And then the movie plot hit me. Right there, in that moment as I was driving to work under a glorious morning sky featuring dark clouds bathed in gold from the rising sun. It’s a process. I felt God telling me his work in me is a process. So be patient. Be like Billy Beane. Let God’s mysterious works evolve me. It will take some time, and failures. But eventually, a victory will become a string of victories and all will come together. Like it did for me in the car on the way to work when God was there in so many ways. Like it did for Billy Beane. Be patient......
