The other night I saw new The Dark Knight film. It was fantastic and I absolutely recommend you see it.
Heath Ledger as the Joker was phenomenal. I would have to agree when people say that's his best acting yet. He totally made the character... However, it was quite sad to watch the film, knowing that Heath had died not so long ago from a drug overdose and although his was said to be accidental, there are many in the world that are not an accident.
Drugs.
The world is full of them... but some aren't quite what you expect them to be.
Some are lust, some are money... others are material things like games and food and fashion.
They get us hooked and even though we know it's probably not the best for us, these drugs keep consuming our lives.
Why?
Why do we let these things fill our lives? They drown us... and we think they fulfill us, but they don't. Everyday we are tempted by these "harmless" drugs and sometimes we can't let go of them... sometimes we need a hero to help us let go. A hero who kicks the bad stuff out of our lives and leaves only good stuff.
Get this right.... In the film The Dark Knight... Batman is the hero that Gotham deserved but not what it needed right now. I was wondering how I could link this movie to God...
And you know what? Jesus isn't the hero the world deserves, in fact, the world will never deserve him. Yet Jesus is the hero the world needs. And like Batman, people have despised Jesus... even called him a freak perhaps...
I've always wondered how cool is would be to have a superhero in my city... like Batman, or Superman, or Spiderman. A hero who comes in and knocks all the enemies out and saves the day! A hero the city would admire and celebrate... worship even.
But you know what? We already have that hero. And his name is Jesus Christ... the only thing is, people don't celebrate him like he deserves to be celebrated... some people don't even know he exists! What crazyness! After all.. to have a hero, is to have hope and what hope do people have without their hero?
And when people don't see evidence of their heroes hard work in their everyday lives, they begin to lose hope. Don't you see how important it is to tell people that their hero, Jesus, exists and is saving people every single day?!
Jesus is not the hero the world deserves.... he is the hero the world needs.
