Super Powers

So I just got done watching "Push" at the theater. I enjoyed the movie a lot and recommend it to anyone who loves a good superhero movie that involves beating up the bad guy, uncovering a secret plot and people doing supernatural things usually involving their hands.

After the movie was done all I could think to myself was, "why do we as a society love anything that has to do with super powers?" Especially after my fiancée asked me the standard question, "if you could have a power from the movie, what would it be?" Now there was a group of characters in the movie that could put a thought, idea, memory or even life events into your head-memory and make you believe that it was real. Naturally that's what I chose because it seemed the most hardcore and, well, my flesh was all over it.

Honestly, there is this evil coniving part of you that thinks, "well, if I could make everyone do whatever I wanted, then everything would be amazing, because clearly I know best."

It just struck at the core of human existence for me. Adam and Eve. Me. You. Everyone. We all think at some point in our lives that we know better than God. That Our way, is the best way. It's ironic really, that as a Christian I know that God knows best. He is the creator of everything. He has been around forever (literally). He is also the knower of everything. In that, He knows what was, what is and what will be. Meaning that He knows best. So since I have created nothing (except for maybe a few sand-castles, a handful of computers and some arts and crafts), have been alive for a grand-total of 23 years and 8 months (almost to the day ... my birthday is on the 23rd) and I only know in part since I am only a flawed human (1 Corinthians 13:9, check it out).

Then why and how can I ever think for a second that I know best or even better than God. It's the same thing as a teenager thinking that they know better than their parents. Honestly, I know I'm only 23, but I know now that my parents did know better than me growing up, and that in instances even now they still know better than I do (that's a different subject for a different day (obediance vs. respect for parents)).

We should all take a lesson from Adam and Eve and be reminded of it frequently. Our sinful nature began with the idea that we knew better than God. And we paid dearly for it. But God in His ultimate love for us allowed for us a way to return into His presence. Jesus Christ coming down from Heaven, living among us as a man. Dying on the cross a sinless man in order to take the place of the entire sins of the world (past, present and future). And rasing from the DEAD with a new heavenly body and ascending into heaven to prepare a place for us.

God's love is everlasting, amazing and intense. We will never know better than Him and the best thing we could ever do with our lives is to give them up completely to His will and let God lead our lives completely.