Journal of James's Journey with Jesus

Today, I watched a really good movie called 'Hidalgo' with Germaine and Irvin. It's based on a true story about this guy called Frank T. Hopkins and there are a few lessons in the movie that I find really interesting and biblical. This story is about an american cowboy whose father, a mountain ranger, married one of the Red Indian tribes' chief's daughter, giving birth to Frank. Frank grew up with the tribe while he was young but lived as a cowboy the rest of his life. The movie focuses on Frank in his days of being an adult. He rode his mustang Hidalgo really well and won a lot of endurance races. Frank was frequently sent to send dispatches. One day, he sent a dispatch to some officers who were there to subdue the Red Indians if they rebelled. He left shortly after that. The officers confiscated guns from the Red Indians but when they tried to take a gun from a deaf Red Indian, the Red Indian wouldn't let go because he was hard of hearing. A shot was accidentally fired into the air and confusion and probably the intention to kill caused the officers to gun down every Red Indian in the tribe. Frank returned after hearing the gunshots and saw the massacre. He never got rid of the guilt because he thought it was the dispatch he delivered that caused this. Frank was depressed and reduced to a circus attraction. In his middle adulthood, an Arabian envoy came to the circus to invite him to a race in the daunting and unforgiving desert of Saudi Arabia. The story goes on as Frank and his 'impure' horse surprise many Arabian people as they managed to beat many pure-bred horses and eventually won in this ultimate test of endurance. The movie portrayed his integrity, honour, perseverance and courage. Hidalgo also proved himself to be better than any pure-bred horse. This shows that horses don't need to be pure to win, but they do need to have that desire to win. In the same way, God looks not at our individual pureness but our willingness to come to and accept Him. One Red Indian elder gave Frank the nickname 'The Far Rider' because he rides far from himself, not wanting to think about and decide his identity. Frank did not consider himself as a Red Indian or an American. There are so many of us like that in the world. They think that by being free thinkers, they are safe in the war for souls. The truth is that these people do not accept their identity as God's children and prized creation. They are lost souls, being shot at and brought down to hell by Satan because they're like the Red Indians; unarmed. The third lesson I learnt was about the Arabs. They believe so blindly that they can do nothing because everything is predestined by Allah. They believe that if their horse can't go any further in the desert, the horse should be shot because it's predestined to die. They believe that if they fall into quicksand, no one should save them for Allah must have wanted them to die this way. They have blind fear of and blind obedience to the Lord but not understanding of His character. The fourth thing I learned was that the supposed spirits of the dead ancestors visited Frank in the desert. This convinces me that Frank might have been misled in his life and have suffered the eternal fire. Frank won the trophy prize of 100, 000 American silver dollars and used it to save the race of the mustang horse from being shot by the American government. To sum it all up, 'Hidalgo' is an extremely nice movie...