This weekend I went to the movies to see the Hobbit part 2: The
Desolation of Smaug with my wonderful girlfriend. I generally don't make it to the movies very
often anymore. I get bored very quickly,
I find most plot lines boring and see-through, and feel antsy to stand up or
curl up and pull out my Kindle to read something interesting during most
movies. The Hobbit, while long, was
quite satisfying however.
Anyway, during the initial trailers for different movies,
the screen flashed to an epic ancient Greek war scene, and I immediately became
excited - this was the new 300 movie,
300: Rise of an Empire. While
noting my excitement over a war movie and asking the question, "Why is a
pacifist getting excited about this?" I noted a distinct and very
Americanized phrase tearing from the lips of one of the soldiers in the
movie: "Better we show them, we
chose to die on our feet than live on our knees." The movie trailer than portrays war as a way
to keep freedom, do justice, and have vengeance all in one breathe.
I thought to myself immediately, "Therein lies the
problems for Christians that many of us do not see, especially U.S. Christians.
For Christians, we already live on a bended knee to THE LORD, Jesus Christ. The issue then is not fighting to keep our
freedom or stay out of servitude - we are already in servitude to Jesus and
find our freedom in this service as well.
The real issue is that we refuse to kill to protect us from going into another's
service. We can neither be in another's service because
we are already submitted to Jesus, nor should we balk at serving others
- that is what we should be doing already. " We would die to stay in the
service of Jesus, but can never bend the knee to another authority because we
already live on bended knee to Jesus; at the same time, we are already serving
others, just as Christ did.
Simply
something to think about as we continue to walk our on journey with Christ.
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