As this episode opens, it begins to focus on Sybil, Mary's younger sister. Interested in politics she attends rallys in town to learn more about the candidates for voting. At this time it was okay for women to vote, but it was strongly discouraged, for a reason. A fight breaks out by them in the rally and her chauffeur (Branson) immediately races her out of there and takes her home. When her father Lord Grantham later finds this out, he is furious that she put herself in such danger, and forbids her to ever go back to the rallys. Which means of course, because it was forbidden, she would have to go back the next week. Well, by weeks end she has her father convinced that she's going to a meeting in town that she must be at, so he agrees to let her go. When they arrive in town she tells Branson to take her to the political meeting instead and he reluctantly agrees but tells her he's not going to leave her side (Branson actually has feelings for Sybil). They pull up to the meeting and she gets out of the car, but there isn't room to park right in front so Branson must take the car around to park it, he tells her to just come with him and then they can go in but she races in instead of waiting. After she got in she began listening for a minute or so and then on the outside Matthew just happens to be walking by and saw a bunch of men carrying rocks into the meeting area so he goes in after them and finds Sybil, and later joined by Branson. A fight breaks out leaving Sybil hurt and on the ground, Matthew defending her punches the man who did that to her than grabs her and carries her out to the car. They get her back to Downton and begin cleaning up her head wound. Because Matthew was there all the women began to thank him and give him a lot of attention because they were impressed with his saving Sybil. Even Sybil you could tell was very thankful.
Through this entire episode i kept thinking about how we are as children of God. We want to obey, but our childish wordly curiosity usually wins out over obedience. Sybil went against he fathers best wishes and then she ended up getting hurt pretty bad because of her bad choice to not obey her father who knew best. I see this everywhere in our world. How we as Christians, honestly, we know what God wants, or at least we know what we aren't supposed to do, it's all laid out for us in Exodus, the Ten Commandments ring any bells? But we defy them anyways because our worldly desires thinking "oh i couldn't possibly get hurt" or "what if God doesn't know best?" And than we take the road that wasn't intended for us. So, just as Sybil knew what her father didn't want her to do, we know what God doesn't want us to do, are we going to be disobedient and get hurt by our own choices, or are we gonna do as God says because ultimately he does know best?
No comments:
Post a Comment