Fantastic Trinity!

Fantastic Trinity!

I find it amazing that superheroes always have obstacles they have to overcome. Superman wouldn’t have been so super if there wouldn’t have been kryptonite. Green Lantern had to recharge his ring and Batman had gadgets to over come his mortal-ness. If they had no obstacles how would they relate to us, better question, how would we relate to them? Jesus is my Superhero! He saved our lives from eternal death and it is a free gift to those who accept it. I like Hebrews 4:15,
“For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are - yet was without sin!” My superhero overcame great obstacles - sin and death to rescue me! To rescue many! So this Superhero is real and He is filled with love for us. So much so that He would have given His life and rose again for just one, as it shows in the Matthew 18 parable when the shepherd leaves the flock to rescue just one sheep. He doesn’t want one to be lost. So like any good Superhero, He makes the saving easy on the victim.
In all the Superman flicks the victims just had to scream for help or make a lot of noise. With my Jesus I just needed to make some noise too! From the depth of my darkness and pain. I had to put my life in His hands - I just had to ask! 1 John 4:15 says,
“Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God.” or Romans 10:9,
“that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” Amazing, isn’t it? God only wants us to believe and He does the rest. Just like the victims in Superman’s movies had to believe he existed and was real so they could call out to him for help! And the Mayor had to believe in Batman to turn on his light.
So one asks and Jesus comes to the rescue! What then? That is a good question! Superman doesn’t hang around after the saving, he doesn’t try to direct the footsteps of the now saved victim? He doesn’t want the heart and life of those saved. This is a good point, so what does it mean to walk with the Lord. We are to live as a living sacrifice, die to self. Sounds hard? Yep, it is and we have to do it daily, but the rockin’ thing is the adventure that follows! That is Colossians 1:9-13 in a nutshell,

“For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,”
So we learn more about the Lord, He begins to reveal to us things we could not see in our unrescued state. So we learn more about Him, what about my life, you ask? Well, I’ll tell you, God starts moving the world around you! We can rest in Him, trust our life to Him and He will redeem that too! He makes this promise over and over, my two favorites are:
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. “ Jeremiah 29:11 and
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. “ Romans 8:28 This means that no matter what happens in our life, even if right now we can’t see it because it is too fresh and too new of a hurt, God will redeem it all! He will make sure that all of it works for us and we may not know for years! I remember when my family crumbled 8 years ago I was always asking the Lord why and I kept coming back to these two verses. Now I know a myriad of reasons why and I’m sure there are many more I don’t yet know. The Lord redeemed the pain and crushing blow mightily, I have a bigger family now and more people that love me! Let the Lord redeem your life and all of its crushing blows, He can, but first you have to exercise your free will and give Him the life to redeem! He can be your Superhero too! He will not only rescue you now but throughout your life! He helps us up over and over again, our own personal Superhero! He makes us stronger every day! He helps us grow in Him and makes life an adventure because we know as His children - nothing can harm us! If we die we are with Him and if we are alive we are with Him, yippee! It is a win-win situation.
Not only does my Superhero save and keep saving, not only does He make it easy to be saved because He doesn’t want to lose any. He also does amazing things in our life. I love Ephesians 3:20,
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.” That is the same power that resurrected Christ!(Romans 8:11) It is an amazing truth! There is nothing in our lives too BIG or too small for our God! Psalm 37:4 says,
“Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.” How great is that! I love delighting in the Lord and the more I come to know my Superhero the more I want to Know! There isn’t a single Superhero that children worldwide idolize that loves us so much, that has and does save us from so much and that can take events and turn them to good - can redeem everything!
By having our personal Superhero(Savior) does that make life easy? Nope, Superman’s sweetheart was in even more danger for knowing him, she was constantly in trouble, but he was constantly saving her. And so it is with Jesus, life still happens, we are still in the world, but He is constantly on our side, constantly redeeming, constantly saving and constantly loving us with a love we cannot even fathom!
So as for me, my Superhero, my Savior, the Lord of my heart and life is Jesus and I pray that many more will come to know Him.