Assembling Ties

So guys today I want to talk about the Avengers. And when I say that I do mean the Avengers. You ask how could I ever relate a team of Super heroes to God right? Well its not about the superheroes its what we get from them.

I saw the Avengers a few weeks after it had come out in theaters, and I loved it. To me it was a great movie filled with equally great actors. I get stuck on things, you could call it addicted to them, and this was one of those things. The movie stuck in my head for days and days after I’d seen it. I still find myself contemplating things that went on and laughing about some of the things that happened in it. But one night I started thinking about why we all loved this movie so much? What is it about a group of superheroes that makes everyone so excited? Do we all need a hero of our own that badly? I’ve heard the line “I still believe in heroes” more times than I can count since that movie came out, and I don’t think its just because Nick Fury said it. I think its true.

Our world looks for someone to look up to, something to make them whole and fill that gap inside of them. As Christians we have found that missing part of us it is God. And its our duty to share that with the world, so that they may find Him too. Not only do we need to go out and tell others about Him but we must be unified in Christ. A good friend once told me this regarding her thoughts on the Avengers:

"It reminded me of something...As Christians we have a group of us...with a goal to fight the enemy. But many think "I am the strongest here for the best here so really the other Christians are going to hinder it or get in My way." So we are fighting the enemy but we are loosing ground. The enemy manipulates us because he knows as long as we let that ego feed and we are not unified, he will continue to gain ground. But at the end of the movie all the Avengers (mainly Ironman) realized they weren't going to win unless they humbled themselves and became unified with the others, is the only reason they won. That is WHY God tells us to be unified. The power is in the body not one individual."

This struck me as true for many reasons. First of all the bible says in Matthew 18:20, “For wherever two or three are gathered (drawn together as My followers and (into) My name, there I AM in the midst of them.” God is telling us how powerful we are as a team here. When we work together anything can be done. The bible goes on to say that we should, “Not [forsake] or [neglect] to assemble together [as believers], as is the habit of some people, but admonishing (warning, urging, and encouraging) one another, and all the more faithfully as you see the day approaching.” Hebrews 10:25 God is telling us to Assemble, yes that's right assemble together, and not only pray but encourage each other as well.

I believe that God has given each of us a calling in our lives and made us all ‘superheros’ for Christ. He has given us His word and Spirit so that we can go out and do what He has called us to do. But sometimes we fall into the trap of this world even when we are trying to follow God’s plan for our lives. Have you heard the new saying “I do what I want”? Its something that’s come partially from the Avengers, I’ve seen t-shirts that have Loki on it saying that line. Some days as Christians we fall into this category of person and we don’t think we need anyone else to help us move forward in what God has for us. We don’t realize it but we are being fooled. Much like how Iron Man thought he could do it alone we too think we can do it alone but that’s not always the case. We often have struggles that we cannot face alone and that is the reason God tells us that we must both rely on him and stick together as a team. Because like my friend said, the power is in the body not the individual. The bible says in Proverbs 27:17, “Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." And in 1 Corinthians 12:20-25, it says “As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, ...”

God knows how important it is for us to work together as a team, two heads are better than one after all. So let us remember this lesson from the Avengers, as a team we are more powerful than we are alone. We are all superheroes for God sent to bring the light back to this world. Lets give the devil ‘performance issues’ and stop letting him trick us into thinking we can do it all alone and work together to advance the Kingdom of God. I dare you to try it and see what happens.