I saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens this weekend with my grandson. It was a special time sharing this adventure, renewed for another generation. I remember the first time I saw it and fell in love with the story. This movie brought back all of that amazement. My grandson, who is eight, turned to me during this movie and whispered, "This is the BEST movie I've ever seen!" My heart swelled with joy and pride for my Padawan.
I say all of that to lead in to today's devotional…
How dead we are! How callous and unfeeling to his glory and his story! How often have I had to repent and say, “God, I am sorry that the stories men have made up stir my emotions, my awe and wonder and admiration and joy, more than your own true story.”
The space thrillers of our day, like Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, can do this great good for us: they can humble us and bring us to repentance, by showing us that we really are capable of some of the wonder and awe and amazement that we so seldom feel when we contemplate the eternal God and the cosmic Christ and a real living contact between them and us in Jesus of Nazareth.
Guilty! Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Trek; I admit I love the stories, the adventure, the wonder. How easily I run after imitations when the wonder that is the Son of God who walked among us, fully God and fully man, who walked on water, worked miracles that would fill a thousand books is so easily overlooked… ignored.
And He knows me! He KNOWS me! I am known of Him! He is faithful when I am not…
I must repent. I cry Gloria!!
All Things Elda 