Allegory from Titanic

Have you watch the movie “Titanic”, the love story between Jack and Rose? It was the biggest box-office hit in the history of the world, all around the world. Rose was a prisoner to a man she doesn’t love in a social circle bound by hypocrisy and betrayal, Rose describes the Titanic as her “Slave Ship.” She is a prisoner; in despair she will try to end her life. When Jack comes to rescue her, it is the first time anyone has ever wanted her for her heart. He sets her free from the small story she was living and invites her up into beauty, intimacy and adventure. He takes her to the bow of the ship at sunset, and he asks her, “Do you trust me?” The last thirty minutes of the movie might be one of the most dramatic rescue scenes of all time. Plunging down on a labyrinth of flooded hallways, they fight their way out of a nightmare and trapped below the deck. Everywhere they look, passengers and crew are desperate, panicking, drowning. Jack pulls rose up to the highest point he can find, the stern of the sinking ship, the last refuge from the freezing waters. But there is no escape aboard Titanic. Just before the final plunge of the ship, Jack says to Rose, “Do not let go of my hand. This is going to get worse before it gets better. Do not let go.” Finally it is clear that both of them cannot share the little piece of floating wreckage they have found, and Jack insist that Rose climb upon it while he slowly succumbs to hypothermia. How awful is the scene were Jack freeze to death in the water so cold, as he said “It stabs every part of the body like a knife.” Everything is gone, the beauty, the romance and the adventure. And Jack dies. He dies that she may live. When Rose finishes telling her tale, Rose pauses for a moment. Then she adds one last thing: “He saved me in everyway a person can be saved.” Isn’t this our story? In the same way God has been pursuing us all our lives, calling us up out of our small stories. He sends to us beauty and affliction, he haunts us with a memory of Eden, and he speaks through every story we’ve ever loved, calling to our hearts: “Do you trust me? Will you let me come for you?” And at the point of our deepest betrayal, when we had run our farthest from him and gotten so lost we could never find our way home, God came and died to rescue us. You have never been love like this. He has come to save you in every way a person can be saved. That is God’s heart toward you.