… the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Of course, once Neo becomes “enlightened” to the truth his life actually becomes more difficult and bleak. Those of us who follow the Lord Jesus Christ and have accepted his offer of life in the age to come, are acutely aware of how true to experience this can be.
One of the other characters in the movie, Cypher, regrets his decision to take the red pill and find out “how deep the rabbit-hole goes”. He would rather be a slave, asleep and oblivious to the reality of what’s going on, feeding on “virtual” steak and accepting the blinders. In order to regain the womb to tomb comfort of the Matrix, he sells out his compatriots to the enemy. His spoken philosophy: “Ignorance is bliss.”
Gosh I’m so much like Cypher and like Neo. I want to be the one who takes the red pill, faces reality and lives out of my true heart come what may. But then I’m a well seasoned American child of affluence who enjoys worldly comforts. “Oh wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” (Rom 7:24) Like Cypher, I like my creature comforts.
So although we’re not just batteries for a race of evil machines, like the horrible future portrayed in “The Matrix”, there is an evil that would like to ruin our lives in a fruitless pursuit of things that are not worthy of our attention. In fact, the world in which we live, is, in many ways orchestrated to appeal to our basest emotions and intentions and thus shipwreck our faith and reliance on God and divine providence. I agree with the Apostle John in his first epistle to the Church where he writes:
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abides for ever. (1John 2:15-17)
Don’t let them pull the world over your eyes! Love God and eschew evil. Jesus Christ is coming again.
@ 2007 Joseph Ricciardi Jr
