The blind side movie

We bought the boys "The Blind Side," and as the boys were watching it via Clear Play they arrived at that dramatic point when Michael Oher has to write an essay in order to get his GPA high enough to graduate eligible for NCAA college football.  Tim McGraw's character claims that "The Charge Of The Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson was written to depict the rivalry between two SEC football programs.  Actually, Tennyson wrote it after reading an article in the London Times in 1854, written to describe a particular part of the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War.  Ironically, though written during the Victorian age of logic and reason, Tennyson's most famous line may have been, "Theirs was not to reason why." What about for us?  Certainly, the Bible encourages us to reason together over spiritual truths (Isa. 1:18).  God endowed us with native intelligence, able to decipher right and wrong.  We can "know" (cf. John 8:32).  But, there also arises a time and circumstance in which we must cease rationalizing and reasoning away, content to follow the great Commander of the soul and to say, "Where He leads me, I will follow."  Too many have ceaselessly made it their business to "reason why."  God gives clear instructions, but they incessantly say, "Why?"  He says, "Follow. Teach. Purify. Yield. Obey."  Is ours to reason why?

-- Neal Pollard

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