"Clint's 'The Mule' "

I did this drawing of now-88 year old CLINT EASTWOOD many, many moons ago. Though I loved his westerns, Clint's last three movies that he's starred in, starting with the boxing-centered "Million Dollar Baby," are my all-time favorite Clint Classics.

The trailer for his new movie, "The Mule," which comes out tomorrow, has me concerned however.

  Frankly, the new movie doesn't look that good, and Clint HIMSELF now looks too old for the part.  It kind of has me wondering "Does Clint still have 'it' ?" (I'd hate to see him snap his own "winning streak," but, of course my friend Mike and I are planning to go to the theater despite this lingering doubt I have.)

Note: I said I am WONDERING if  Eastwood still has "it."      I'm not WORRYING about that.

  What I am worrying about, however is if this aging cinematic genius who has been blessed with SO MUCH will get right with God before he dies one day...or if he'll be one who, as Jesus said, "gains the world but loses his soul."  

(THAT is something "worthy" of worry, in my opinion.)

You see, "The Mule" is an apt title for a movie starring a man, however much I love him, who is worth $350-plus million bucks and yet says he doesn't believe in God.  He is STUBBORN as a mule....but I pray God turns his heart before he passes!!  There is only one place God can send atheists when they die...and, let me put it this way, He doesn't need to prove to any of us that He exists by bringing us to Heaven.  There is SO much evidence of His existence, here and now, just in His CREATION, that all of us are left without excuse if we don't seek Him while there's time.

God's GOODNESS has not yet led Clint to repentance, and the Lord is under no obligation to try trials or affliction or exposure to the Gospel (which, I've read, he had growing up, ANYway.)  But I hope GOD hasn't given up on CLINT the way CLINT wants no part of GOD.

Getting back to "The Mule" the MOVIE.....it is said that you can't judge a book by its cover and, for that matter, you can't always tell how good a MOVIE is by its TRAILER.  I hope "The Mule" is better than it appears to be.

And as far as "The Mule" who is Clint Eastwood, THE BIBLE says that "Man looks at the outward appearance but the LORD looks at the HEART"....I hope God is doing something in Clint's heart that we CAN'T see yet...and if He isn't, I pray that He WILL yet deal with this "Mule" so many of us love.