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Thursday, August 04, 2005

Believers in Christ - The Incredibles

The following just came to me in a matter of seconds at work.

I was reading my Cisco Flash Cards book, and I noticed that you can tear out the pages. It made me think of the scene in The Incredibles where Robert Parr (Mr. Incredible) tears his employee manual in half in one tear after he's fired from his job. "It'd be interesting to see someone do that with these flash cards," I thought.

Then, another thought came to mind. What if someone found that manual torn in half in the trash? Where would it come from? How in the world could someone do that? That's beyond natural human strength. The supers (superheros) had been forced into hiding. The government forbid them to use their superpowers and keep their super identities secret. The world didn't want them. They didn't want the extraordinary or anything beyond what's natural.

And then it hit me...

Believers in Jesus Christ are the supers. The world doesn't want us. They don't want Christ. They don't want the supernatural (beyond what's natural). Even though it could save them, they don't want their boats to be rocked by Jesus Christ. They don't understand that by letting their boat capsize, God Himself will give them a new, glorious boat.

I recommend the next time you watch The Incredibles, watch it with this in mind. Consider the parallels between the feelings of Robert Parr and his family and the feelings we sometimes have as believers...feelings of being silenced, being held back, feeling forced to fit in, and sometimes even wanting to fit in with the world.

"Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were made to stand out?"
-- Leo Giovinetti (quoted as best I can remember)

"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."
-- John 15:18-19 (ESV)

"Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you."
-- 1 John 3:13 (ESV)

1 Comments:

  • interesting thought. sadly, most "supers" just want to fit in... we were called to be different. it's called the great commission, not the great suggestion.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at January 04, 2011 11:55 PM  

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