Jesus the real Prestige

My wife and i watched The Prestige the other day. It’s about a rivalry between two magicians (Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman) for the ultimate illusion. There's 3 steps to every magic act. 1. The Pledge 2. The Turn and 3. The Prestige. In one scene Jackman is performing a act or illusion... There’s 2 doors on the stage facing each other. Jackman would stand behind one door and as he throws his hat towards the second door, he walks through the first door where he then disappears, and magically appears 30 feet away walking through the second door right in time to catch his hat. Got that? If that did not make sense at all... see my awesome picture below. :-)

How does the illusion work? Jackman used a double, a person that looked exactly like him. When he went through the first door, his double came out the second door. So guess what happens next? Bale finds out about Jackman’s double... (dramatic pause) Now when Jackman starts the act again, stepping through the first door and falling down expecting to see his double take the elevator up to the second door, guess who he sees going up the elevator? Bale. His rival magician - Bale. The crowd didn’t know what to do, they knew Bale was performing across the street, but how did he get here, was it part of the act? Then they start clapping and praising Bale for his “supreme” act! 

Muslims all across the world are observing Ramadan right now. And so this afternoon as i was asking Father how we could pray for them, this scene came running through my head. I’ve heard crazy stories about Jesus appearing to Muslims in dreams and visions and leading them to Christians in their cities for discipleship and the works. Awesome stuff. So in relating the movie to Ramadan... Muslims fast various things during Ramadan, in part to earn forgiveness for past sins, and in part to seek a deeper connection with Allah, their God. So they could be like the crowd who came to see Allah perform right? They are all there to see their man in action. What if, and think about this... What if we pray, and what if Jesus shows up at the second door? Jesus, the Prestige. What if they came to see their man, and they found our Man, The Man? Is there a chance that they would respond like the crowd in the movie? Realize that the best show, the superior Performer, is right across the street and head there?

I thought about it, and i think now, that it is a grand idea. How about today, on this 3de day of Ramadan, we pray that as Muslims are seeking a deeper spiritual experience via Allah, that the real Man would show up in their lives, that they would see His love and His superiority, and follow Him to His stage and be loved for ever more.