I simply adore the magical world of Harry Potter. I'm delighted that my kids were the perfect age to grow up with his magic.
I also remember all the fuss surrounding him when he first came out. Which I kinda understand but mostly think they weren't paying attention.
I was paying attention.
Here's what I experienced.
I was drawn into an invisible world that had diferent rules. Remind you of anything? Perhaps Lord of the Rings? Star Wars? Narnia? Just a thought.
I cheered when the kid who was not being loved was taken away and justice was served!
And I cried when I heard that his mother's love was the most powerful magic of all.
In those moments I fell completely in love with this invisible world. I wanted to see the magic that was all around me too!
Interesting thing is that I'm discovering that there is an invisible world.
In Ephesians 4: 17 NIV we learn
"So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking"
I'm reminded of when Ron's Dad would pester Harry about Muggle things. So completely not of his world he couldn't understand.
This is a great example of how we as Christians need to be so focused on the Kingdom of God that perhaps we don't understand the draw of reality TV or why people would make terribly selfish choices that destroy their lives.
Ephesians 4:18 "They are darkened in their understanding and separated fro the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. 19 Having lost alll sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurtiy and they are full of greed."
Bummer.
But we're aren't meant to be trapped by that.
In fact. the reason we love Harry Potter so much is because it's focus is otherworldly not mundane muggle things.
Our focus can also be otherworldly.
In the same way we watch Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, or Narnia and get caught up in the magic, the alternate reality, we need to realize it's because it's in our spiritual DNA. You were made to crave otherworldly. It's more than a trekkie gene passed from Father to Son.
You're recognizing that the reality you see on the news isn't the whole story. It's the darkness.
Ephesians 4:20 "That however is not the way of life you learned 21 when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires: 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds: 24 and to put ont he new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."
Do you get it?
Perhaps you can see like I do that Harry represents all of us. For we were all sinners (muggles) and through the greatest magic of all we were saved (love - God is love - Jesus loved us so much he died for us!)
Happy Dance!
So look at your life and ask, Are you living like a Muggle? Or do you understand that there is an Invisible Realm that you belong to.
Far more grand than Hogwarts.
I also remember all the fuss surrounding him when he first came out. Which I kinda understand but mostly think they weren't paying attention.
I was paying attention.
Here's what I experienced.
I was drawn into an invisible world that had diferent rules. Remind you of anything? Perhaps Lord of the Rings? Star Wars? Narnia? Just a thought.
I cheered when the kid who was not being loved was taken away and justice was served!
And I cried when I heard that his mother's love was the most powerful magic of all.
Interesting thing is that I'm discovering that there is an invisible world.
In Ephesians 4: 17 NIV we learn
"So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking"
I'm reminded of when Ron's Dad would pester Harry about Muggle things. So completely not of his world he couldn't understand.
This is a great example of how we as Christians need to be so focused on the Kingdom of God that perhaps we don't understand the draw of reality TV or why people would make terribly selfish choices that destroy their lives.
Ephesians 4:18 "They are darkened in their understanding and separated fro the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. 19 Having lost alll sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurtiy and they are full of greed."
Bummer.
But we're aren't meant to be trapped by that.
In fact. the reason we love Harry Potter so much is because it's focus is otherworldly not mundane muggle things.
Our focus can also be otherworldly.
In the same way we watch Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, or Narnia and get caught up in the magic, the alternate reality, we need to realize it's because it's in our spiritual DNA. You were made to crave otherworldly. It's more than a trekkie gene passed from Father to Son.
You're recognizing that the reality you see on the news isn't the whole story. It's the darkness.
Ephesians 4:20 "That however is not the way of life you learned 21 when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires: 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds: 24 and to put ont he new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."
Do you get it?
Perhaps you can see like I do that Harry represents all of us. For we were all sinners (muggles) and through the greatest magic of all we were saved (love - God is love - Jesus loved us so much he died for us!)
Happy Dance!
So look at your life and ask, Are you living like a Muggle? Or do you understand that there is an Invisible Realm that you belong to.
Far more grand than Hogwarts.
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