Do you like birds?The Big Year is a movie about three men entering a bird competition: Brad Harris (played by Jack Black), Stu Preissler (Steve Martin and Kenny Bostick (Owen Wilson).
In the movie, Bostick held the world record for most birds spotted in a single year: 732. That’s a lot of birds!
Meanwhile, Brad, a single divorced guy who lived with his parents, decided that he was going to set off to beat that record. Also, Stu, a CEO of a Fortune 500 company decided to retire so he can pursue winning The Big Year as well.
Throughout their adventure, Brad and Stu meet and form a tight bond over what they love. Brad helped old Stu feel younger again and Stu helped poor Brad stop going into debt over travel expenses. Stu even helped Brad get closer to his dad and meet a special bird-loving young lady.
As the competition progressed, their desires for birds was overcome by a desire for true happiness in their love lives, families and friendships with one another.
Bostick, however, was a different story.
He was no-holds barred and did whatever it took to maintain his title, becoming so consuming that he pushed away everything, even his beautiful wife Jessica. He shattered his record and walked away with another Big Year title, but did it all alone.
The overall lesson communicated in this movie was that the simple pleasures of happiness and love are far greater than the pride of a title.
As people we can do the same thing. We believe this lie about life, that when we achieve a certain goal, then we will be truly happy. So we put everything on the chopping block: even our own families!
So in Matthew 6, when Jesus said, “Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear,” do you think he had a point? When he told that rich man to “sell everything and follow me” (Luke 18:22), do you think he was issuing him another challenge, or do you think He was trying to save that man’s life?
He was no-holds barred and did whatever it took to maintain his title, becoming so consuming that he pushed away everything, even his beautiful wife Jessica. He shattered his record and walked away with another Big Year title, but did it all alone.
The overall lesson communicated in this movie was that the simple pleasures of happiness and love are far greater than the pride of a title.
As people we can do the same thing. We believe this lie about life, that when we achieve a certain goal, then we will be truly happy. So we put everything on the chopping block: even our own families!
So in Matthew 6, when Jesus said, “Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear,” do you think he had a point? When he told that rich man to “sell everything and follow me” (Luke 18:22), do you think he was issuing him another challenge, or do you think He was trying to save that man’s life?
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