Saturday, April 7, 2012

These Aren't The Droids You are Looking For

I , have super powers . I can read minds and predict the future . I walked in the house one day with mud on my feet . I heard a sigh and knew what my wife was thinking . I also knew what I'd be doing for the next ten minutes . Not the most impressive powers .

Flying . Now that's some power. Leaping tall buildings in a single bound . That's pretty cool but who uses that anymore - it's all urban sprawl with short buildings now a days . X-ray vision I always thought was cool but I'd no doubt get in trouble with that one so it's just as well I didn't get that . The best though is the guy that makes the doughnuts . Anybody who can take white powders and turn them into ambrosia is super indeed !

Obi wan had a pretty cool thing going with the force didn't he ? Just wave your hand and move things or affect the mind . I have that power actually . I'm waving my hand right now in fact. . . . ' this is the best blog you've ever read . You want to share it with everyone. . . . '.

There was an episode of Star Trek , the one from the 60's , where a character named Gary Mitchell was zapped by some electrical force and was given the power of a super mind . So powerful he could just think something and it would happen . That's the super power I want . Who needs to fly when you can just think yourself some place . This would come in handy though when you would drive among the mere mortals . How many times have you been behind some slow poke driver holding up a mile of traffic and they have no clue and you imagine using this power to lift the car off the road and put it in the ditch . Don't act all shocked . You know you've thought it .

I've thought of having this power and all the good I could do . Like stop crime . I'd walk in on a bank robbery and yell stop and as the guy turned their guns on me I'd make them melt in their hands . Cool . Then I think about their burned hands and how they'll go to jail and we'll have to pay to keep 'em there . And when they get out we'll have to pay for their welfare 'cause they can't work 'cause they have no hands . They got burned off some how . So instead of all that , I just kill 'em . Brutal .

And that's the problem . No mercy . In an attempt to do good I create more problems (burned hands) and and more down the road (welfare) so I avoid this all together and just kill 'em . No chance for change . No chance for redemption . Too much good to do to bother with the details of my fellow human beings. I'd make a terrible super hero .

There was this one guy though who had that . Super powers I mean . Together with His Dad they spoke the world into existence . They said "night and day" and it was . They said "land and sea" and it was . And "people" . I liked that one myself . And things were pretty cool for a while and then some one screwed up and we got kicked out . A shame too because I KNOW there's two shade  trees with a hammock stretched out between 'em that woulda been mine . Anyway , like me, He killed them . The difference is , He figured a way to bring 'em back .

Jesus came for a while to stay and do His Dads work . For a while He stayed under the radar but then the last three years it was like living with Superman in town . He used those super powers to do good , to heal folks . To forgive them . To cast out evil . So impressive man . In the end though , He didn't use them at all . He could have called 12 legion of angels (about 75,000) to wipe out those who did unjust things to Him . It would have been like that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark . They'd just be gone . Forever . But He didn't so that we could live . Forever .

This Easter I celebrate. I celebrate that Jesus didn't use His super powers , save one . He loved His Dad . He loved Him so much He let Himself die an unjust death so His Dad could bring back the ones who were condemned . Those doomed forever . And three days later using the greatest power of all He raised not one , but millions from the dead . And I rejoice because though I am a wretch of a man I have been made clean and whole and will live forever in paradise .

And in that place there will be four shade trees with two hammocks in which I 'll get to relax with the strongest , most superest of hero's of all. My Dad . And for this , I rejoice !