I'm still amazed that they did a reboot of the Spiderman series. There's also another Avengers movie coming out, as well as Daredevil on Netflix.
Superhero movies and TV shows are growing in momentum, and it doesn't seem to matter that we all know the stories. We want to see it done again and again and again.
Popular interest can say something about what we desire. The reason many of these movies are so popular is because of a common theme. An ordinary person has an extraordinary encounter and then becomes extraordinary.
We want to know we are not created by chance, we want to believe there is a hero deep inside us ready to be born. And these movies touch on that desire.
Reading Ephesians this morning, this stood out to me.
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms" Eph 1:18-20 (NIV)
We were all ordinary people, who had an extraordinary encounter that infused us with a special power that is not of this world.
We are superheroes.
Give that a minute to really sink in. There is power in us, and there is also a great purpose.
"For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)
Do you see how important we are? We are the heroes in the midst of our own lives. We have been given power, and with that great power comes great responsibility.
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." Matthew 28:19-20 (NIV)
And our superhero mission? Nothing less than to take up the cause of Christ, who came to save the world.
