"Only One"

So the other day I was watching the movie "Sherlock Holmes" and I was struck by something, and it was this:  "That's how many people are today."  Here's the scenario without giving out too much of the plot (I hope anyway:)). Towards the end of the movie the evil villain's plot is foiled by Holmes and Dr. Watson and the thing that struck was while watching one of the villain's main followers.  You see throughout the movie he had been a faithful follower who did his master's bidding, believing that he was the one who would lead them into ultimate power and an eternal kingdom that would never end.  He followed him wholeheartedly, never doubting, even committing murder in order that he might rule with his master.  Here is what happened though.  After the villain is stopped he exits the room that they are in and his follower is left in the middle of the room with a look of complete bewilderment and confusion on his face.  He doesn't understand what just happened and now he doesn't know what to do.  The scene ends with him pushing through a crowd of people trying to get away from it all.  That's when I thought, "That's how many people are today."  

You see, many people are following many things today.  Whether it's a world leader, a new age guru, some superstition, religion, or cult of old, people are following something hoping that it will bring them what they long for. Many throughout history have found that what or who they are following, just like the guy in the movie found, is a complete farce and is not able to deliver that which they so longed for and hopefully many in our age of history will find the same thing to be true before it's too late, for there is only one Man who is worth following and that Man is the Lord Jesus Christ.  Philippians 2:9-11 says, "Therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above every other name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."  

One day everyone will know that there is only One that is worthy to be followed, only One that fulfiils our deepest needs and desires, and only One that will have an eternal kingdom with no end.  He is no scheme of man or of His enemy Satan.  Satan loves that many do not know Him and are instead following the lies he has spread and the lusts of their own sinful flesh.  We ought to pray that many who are following lies in this world would come to a point of bewilderment and confusion that would leave them hungering for the truth that they can only find in Jesus Christ.