IF YOU HAVEN'T MET THE DEVIL TODAY, IT'S BECAUSE YOUR'E GOING IN HIS DIRECTION
I am taking my two boys to see the new Captain America: the First Avenger movie tommorow. The story is about a weak and powerless man who is turned into Captian America who courageously fights evil and darkness where ever it is found. I love these kind of superhero movies but I can't help but wonder that in the end, these movies still promote a kind of war mentality and violence can be redemptive. Jesus took all the violence of the world upon himself so that we could lay down our physical arms and pick up his spiritual weapons. If we look to our technology and weapons of mass destruction to save us, then this becomes another form of idolatry.
War is not our true enemy but it is often a tool that the enemy uses to cause incredible amounts of division and destruction in its path. But what we see in the natural does reveal in the spiritual the true place where Christians must battle the enemy Satan. If we are not entering into the place of spiritual conflIct where God wants to use us the most, we end up fighting among ourselves rather than the One who is the true enemy of faith in Christ. We must never forget, that vengeance is not ours but God's!
I am taking my two boys to see the new Captain America: the First Avenger movie tommorow. The story is about a weak and powerless man who is turned into Captian America who courageously fights evil and darkness where ever it is found. I love these kind of superhero movies but I can't help but wonder that in the end, these movies still promote a kind of war mentality and violence can be redemptive. Jesus took all the violence of the world upon himself so that we could lay down our physical arms and pick up his spiritual weapons. If we look to our technology and weapons of mass destruction to save us, then this becomes another form of idolatry.
War is not our true enemy but it is often a tool that the enemy uses to cause incredible amounts of division and destruction in its path. But what we see in the natural does reveal in the spiritual the true place where Christians must battle the enemy Satan. If we are not entering into the place of spiritual conflIct where God wants to use us the most, we end up fighting among ourselves rather than the One who is the true enemy of faith in Christ. We must never forget, that vengeance is not ours but God's!
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