supervillains

I watched Megamind awhile ago, and it's just now been on my mind, not even for the last ten minutes.

Not 100% sure how it just suddenly started to tell me stuff, but I think God wants me to recognize something.

In the movie, Megamind, the anti-hero Megamind fulfills the role of the supervillain for the first half of the movie. His arch-nemesis is a superhero by the name of MetroMan, and frankly, although smart, the villain never wins. Ever.

But there is something very interesting about Megamind. He loses every time, but he kept coming back for more. There was no end to his resolute passion of defeating Metroman. He kept on coming.

And I feel like that's the way it is with all supervillains. In order for the journey of the superhero to continue, he has to have an archnemesis who runs away and comes back every time to try again to beat him, even though they knew they had no chance of winning.

So it's the same with Christ's supervillain counterpart. My sinful nature. It will never go away because it is in a desperate battle to own my soul. It will never keep trying to make me go against my covenants and my promises to God. It will put me in traps where God's blessing seems to be with me. It knows where it will ultimately end up, and so its only purpose in this world, in my mind and my heart, is to drag me down with it.

It will always, ALWAYS come back for more. That's why I have to be careful. I cannot ever think that all things I believe to be set-up by God as only set up by God. There is always some kind of sin some kind of cryptic vice buried inside of it that will cause my unsuspecting heart to stumble. That's why I need to constantly involve Christ in everything I do.

Cuz He knows best, and I don't. And that's good enough for me to obey.