To End All Wars

This is the most amazing movie I have seen in a long time. It is such a beautiful portrayal of grace. To be able to show grace in the midst of a POW camp is unbelievable; I’m not sure I could be so big. The prisoners new what it was to live in a grace-based community, one they created their selves. It would be so easy to become like Ian and become full of hate and revenge, but the others chose to be full of grace and love instead. Ernie was an amazing leader and used his abilities to start up a school and teach the fellow prisoners, in hiding. It was even more unbelievable that his teachings were coming from The Bible. What a mighty man to be able to lead by example in spite of his circumstances.
There were so many examples of grace, like when Dusty gave Ernie his rations, so that he could get better and Dusty then got sick because of his grace; when Yanker took the blame for the missing shovel and received the punishment; when Yanker offered water to Ian when working on the RR, in spite of all that Ian had done to him; and the biggest display was how the soldiers had grace on their captors and chose to work harder, because it is the right thing to do.
What transformation of the Japanese captors from the beginning of the movie, to the end. It took my breath away when the leader allowed them to have their Bible back and continue their classes when he noticed the change in the soldiers and how much harder working and respectful they were when they were being taught God’s truths; he even gave them a gift. More amazing was that the Japanese started hanging out with them and wanting to know about their beliefs; unbelievably touching. There is so much for me to learn from this movie. I want to be like this; an example of Christ’s grace and love even to my enemies. This is a struggle for me, but one I am willing to work on. I am greatly encouraged of how one’s life is truly the greatest witnessing tool. The best part of this movie is that it is true. It doesn’t seem possible, but anything is possible with Christ. I wonder how it took so long for a film to be made about this? As far as I am concerned, this is the greatest war story I have ever seen; everyone needs to see this.