Good Morning All,
One of my favorite movie series is the
“Indiana Jones” series. I really liked
“Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” In
it, Indiana and his father are trying to find the Holy Grail. When he finally comes to the cave that it was
secreted in, he has three tasks to accomplish in order to recover the
grail. The first is about being penitent
before God, the second is knowing the name of God. The final task was to take a “step of faith”
which appears to be an attempt to cross a distance of many feet, too far to
jump. As he looks down, he sees nothing
but the deep of the abyss. He must get
to the room with the grail or else his father will die. In a scene with some pretty good acting, you
can see the anguish of fear and doubt on his face as he takes that step of
faith. As he steps out, he lands on a
bridge that looks like the abyss below.
The pathway was there but he didn’t see it at first; he had to walk by
faith to cross the abyss to the grail.
That last task, the step of faith, really
applies to us in real life as well. We
stand at the edge of the abyss and God invites us to come to him; in order to
do so, we must take a step of faith. And
it is a step of faith. Almost everything
we learn in this world will tell us that to take that step is a mistake. “If you can’t see it, you can’t believe it;”
this is what the world will tell you. So,
we live a life alone. You cannot see
love, or trust, or compassion or any other emotion that we experience.
So, we don’t love, not really anyway, we
manipulate and use others to accomplish our own goals and dreams. We don’t trust because we know everyone is
like us, willing to lie and cheat to get what we want. We have no compassion unless we can get
something out of it in the end. This
life is filled with sadness, hopelessness, and shame.
Yet God still loves us and sent his Son to
die for us. He did this to show us that
the path we can’t see really is there.
He did this to provide that path. He does this so we have somewhere to
go when the pain and sadness of this life is just too much to bear. God gives us the path and we walk it by
faith. He gives us the desire to believe
that the path is the right one. He gives
us the faith to see what true love, true trust and true compassion is.
There will be many times when we will have
to walk in that faith. There will be troubles,
but we can rest assured that we will live by faith, trusting in God’s grace to
pull us through. It is his love that
keeps us going and gives us hope. We
take that step, but we know that the bridge is there, and God goes with us
every step of the way.
Gracious Lord, all we have is faith. This is what gets us through and moves us
forward. Be with us as we walk through
this life on the path that you give us.
Be with those who are especially struggling with life today. Give them the certainty of your grace and
bring them through their trials strengthening their faith as they go. In Jesus’ precious name we pray, amen!
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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