Earn This

I just finished watching this in history class today and I'm just reminded of Jesus. Some background information in the movie "Saving Private Ryan"...basically, there is this solider named Private Ryan. A team of soldiers is sent on a rescue mission to find Private Ryan located deep in Germany and bring him home. This is because his three other brothers were recently killed in war and High Command wants him to go back to his family. So basically, a team is sent out to look for Ryan and on the way, they lose about two soldiers before they find him. So they already lost two soldiers just for this one man. Then on, they find Ryan but he doesn't want to go back home because he wants to stay with his fellow soldiers. The team that went to find him decide to just stay and help Ryan and his fellow soldiers prepare for an upcoming German attack. Another line from the movie not included in the clip is something like, "Maybe one day we'll look back and say that saving private Ryan wasn't a bad thing and made up for the mess of the whole war."

The first clip is basically at the end of the final battle against the Germans. The main guy who led the team was about to die and he said the words, "Earn this. Earn it." Basically, Ryan is one of the only ones left after the battle and a whole lot of people died because of Private Ryan. Many people sacrificed their lives because of this one guy. And the guy says to him to Earn It. He already got something he didn't deserve so he doesn't have to neccesarily earn it but like, how if he going to live knowing that people died for his sake. I hope for me and you guys that we can learn to always take Jesus' sacrifice more seriously. I know that I need to really learn more about His love and sacrifice.