It got me thinkin'

I saw a movie the other day, "The Invention of Lying" and it really got me thinking.
If you havent seen it basically its about this guy who lives in this universe where lying just isnt possible. Everyone is super straight-forward, brutally honest and tells exactly what they are thinking about everyone and everything. The movie goes on to where this guy,who no one likes or thinks anything of him, learns how to tell a lie. One day in the movie he goes in to see his dying grandmother, whom the doctors have just told shes dying and there is no hope, and he begins to tell her a "lie" that there actually is an after-life and you don't just die into nothingness. He tells her you get to see everyone you love there and described a scene similar to that of Heaven. Others find out and are so extremely excited because what they have, this universe with no lies where there is nothing after death, has been expanded upon and now, there is something "just discovered", this afterlife, but really it is a "lie" by this one man. A little confusing, right? I was listening to the message and i was just thinking, this movie is portraying and anti-God philosophy. The movie was referring to the "man in the sky" and at one point in the movie within the "lie" they even had a character say " **** the man in the sky". Really? Is that really what this world has come to? I mean sure the movie didn't straight forward come out and say there is no God, this is all a lie, but the meaning was there staring you directly in the eyes. It just makes me think, how is it that someone could be so embittered against God that they would force feed this idea that someone watching out for you is a lie and something horrible. It just seems pretty sick and twisted to me.
I try to allow myself to think about why dont people believe in God..they have become so tired of all the heartache and misery in their lives that they begin to form views and thoughts that if there were a God why am i going through this? Or not even misery and heartache but they have seen so many "Christians" in their lives turn out to be complete hypocrites and are full of themselves not caring about anyone else but themselves and screw over everyone else in their paths. Those people who claim to be Christians and act like that...all i can say is wow, because of you i hate to bare the name "Christian". Follow me here, there are so many of "Christians" like that...self absorbed knocking everyone down. I will go as far to say that most ARE like that. It sickens me. Because of those people the rest of this world, those who are searching for something/someone to believe in, turn to other religions or themselves to make it through. They look at us "Christians" and want nothing to do with it. Honestly, HOW DARE WE?! How can we claim the name of Christ and at the same time look down upon those who need him most? How can we show his light to the world when we walk in the shadows? How can we let others see him through us if we are marking over his name every single day by our repulsive actions? ....I know deep down inside and with a single doubt at all that there is a God, i know he saved me from being eternally damned and i know that without him i would be NOTHING and there would be NOTHING. I look around me and see this beauty and this magnificent earth and all the complexities and how could there not be a God?...
I remember this one time i was on a retreat in middle school with my youth group, we had to go off to places individually and just reflect. I remember sitting down in a place overlooking this creek and thinking to myself, "what in the world am i going to get out of this?" several minutes passed by and i was honestly a little disappointed "reflect on what?" i thought. Then i looked down and there was this rock, a stone if you will, and it was so unique. The colors and markings on it were like no other and it was honestly a beautiful rock. Sounds dumb, i know. But it made me think..How could there not be a hand in this creation when even the tiniest of all this..stuff is made so unique? excuse my tiny rabbit trail but i want to try and reinforce my point/thought process. Even the little things...God cares enough to touch them with his excellence. Just like humans, the creation he loves the most because we are in his image. Each person is made so uniquely with so many things determining who we are. I know you're thinking, what about identical twins, not so unique. Wrong! Even their fingerprints are different!! Or a snowflake..just think! How many of them are there in this world and every single year in so many places, it is INCREDIBLE to me that there is no snowflake with a match. Wow- just the thought of that makes me so happy and as i type this i have a smile on my face. There is someone who loves this world so much that he reached his hand down and made everything uniquely perfect. --- I do mean perfect. I know we've all heard the phrase "nobodys perfect" or you think, "what about those with handicaps,mentally or physically" but honestly, God made us all perfect to him! He loves every single one of his creations in a way that no one else ever could because he MADE us. Its human nature to think otherwise, that we are not a perfect creation. We look at our flaws and are disgusted and walk around being horrible and treating others terribly....
I guess what im trying to say is as a Christ follower we are to be proud of this and know we are made in his image. We are to gladly show his perfect/pure/beautiful love with everyone else on this earth because we KNOW we are created so uniquely. This sour, jerk-like attitude that so many throw out onto others needs to be rid of, NOW! Who are we to ruin the view of God for others when we are supposed to show others Gods light! There are so many lost people searching for something better than themselves and have turned to other things because of US!! And in the case of this movie "The Invention of Lying" its just another example of what happens because of people like US! Again, How dare we?
Cut the crap, Christ followers.
Bare your cross! Show Gods light to all those searching!