The biggest hit movie of the year right now is Christopher Nolan’s movie, Inception. There are tons of different blogs and posts about the various explanations to the movie and all the possible theories; this is not one of them. I really enjoyed this movie. I enjoyed the complexity of the main character. Then again, I like almost any movie that deals with psychology in a creative and a somewhat accurate way.
There was one part of the movie that really stuck with me. It was the idea of the ability to plant an idea. If there’s anything I’ve learned while training to be a therapist it’s that ideas are powerful. One small belief can raise up kingdoms or murder millions. It all begins with just the smallest of ideas.
As a Christian, this concept has profound implications. There is a passage in the Bible that says that God’s thoughts for us are like the grains of sand; you can’t count them. There’s another verse that says we are the apple of God’s eye. Imagine if we really believed that. The only one in the entire universe who’s love and approval really matters… thinks that we matter… thinks that you matter… thinks that… I matter. For God, this idea that we matter to him was so real and so imprinted onto his heart that he died for it. He entered into a nightmare of pain and suffering so that the dream of being fully loved and accepted could be real.
