“I am heaven”
Doug
Yesterday on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Jim Carrey told Oprah about his upcoming movie, Horton Hears a Who. The movie opens March 14th.
Jim shared how Horton’s motto throughout the movie is that an elephant is faithful 100% of the time. Then he told Oprah his own creed in life: “I am heaven.” When he starts to feel lost, Jim says those are the words he keeps coming back to. “Just remember you’re heaven,” he says. “That heaven is not a place to get to or wait for or spend your life in a mind hoping it will be someday. Have it now, you know?”
Wow. “I am heaven.” Never heard that before. But isn’t he really saying, “I am God.” That my source of happiness lies within me? And the clincher … Jim says, “I don’t want to spend my life hoping it [heaven] will be someday, I want to have it now.” Well, sadly, this world will be all that Jim will have if he continues down this road. This is it. And the end won’t be heaven. It will be terrifying judgment. I think of Matthew 16:26:
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
Let us pray for Jim Carrey (and Oprah for that matter) that God’s kindness would lead them to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ before its too late.
Written by Doug Wolter - Visit Website
February 20th, 2008 at 2:17 am
I would ask Jim WHY are you heaven? Is it a simple matter of choice? What happens when you wife gets cancer or your child gets hit by a truck? We can live in the heavenly realms now through Christ alone. He is the BASIS for our having this peace. It is choosing to live in the REALITY of Christ’s atoning work not in a self-created imagined world.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places” – Eph. 1:3
February 25th, 2008 at 4:20 am
I don’t think he was saying He’s God at all. Maybe — this IS what Jesus REALLY meant when he teaches his sermon on the mount, ”Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as IT IS IN heaven.” Our happiness, our heaven, our love will be done on earth as it shares its boundless creative 10,000 watt energy with us here on earth.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
I just saw the re-run of this show yesterday and was deeply moved by the statement Jim made.
I do not think there is any need to interpret what he said or what he meant. We all know (religious or not) that Heaven is a place that people associate with bliss. So who is to say he is not living his bliss? And more importantly why not? Too many of us think that God gave us this beautiful and magnificent world to what? suffer in? I don’t think so.
Naturally Christians will come down on this statement because of what they have been taught and believed all their life. But there has to be a moment that comes in each of our lives when we have to realize that God cannot possibly have our Earthly human characteristics of vengence and judgement.
And as for cancers, and wars and whatever other negativities we want to think of…it would be so beneficial to more of us if we understood that every situation presented to us is an opportunity for growth and also it is never the situation that should be judged as “bad” or “good”, but our reaction to it.