Since I was a kid and even as I have stepped into
adulthood, I have told myself that I will always be like peter pan, never
having to grow up, I can play forever. Well 2 nights ago, I watched “Lord of the Rings The Two Towers” and I
saw how valiant the men in that movie were, and how much like men they are,
willing to go to battle to protect the ones they love and to fight for what is
right, same thing with the movie 300 as well. Then I had a conversation with a friend the other day about men in the
church not being men, at least not the men God created us to be and that got me
thinking about what have I been doing to be the man of God created me to
be.
Then I
watched the movie “Hook” last night. It
starts with Peter pan being an adult and having a job and a family. Then the villain Captain Hook comes and takes
his children away from him, but the thing is Peter had forgotten who he once was
and had forgotten all about “Neverland” and Captain Hook and didn’t believe
until he was taken back to “Neverland”. He is taken back and introduced to all these things that he used to do
and before long it jogged his memory and he remembered who he was. He had to remember who he was to rescue his
children because the adult that came to rescue his children couldn’t defeat
captain hook but becoming the boy he once was could.
The plot
thickens for a quick minute when he forgets the reason he came back to
“Neverland” and wanted to stay and play games and be a boy the rest of his
life. His friend “Tinkerbell” who
brought him back to “Neverland” had to remind him once again who he was and why
he was back. So once again he had
another transformation, he had to lay aside the boy inside and accept who he
had become but not going back so far as to forgetting who he was. He was a man charged with the responsibility
of his children with his knowledge and understanding of who he was and where he
came from, that could only defeat Captain Hook and rescue his children.
I have
become like Peter Pan, I have been living in “Neverland” and wanting to play
and not grow old but I have my own responsibility of growing up into the man of
God created me. To always remember that
I am a child of God and to have faith like a child but to grow up and be the
valiant man of God who will fight anyone and anything for His kingdom for that
is what He has charged me with. I am no
longer Peter Pan, I have put away my childish ways and become a MAN OF GOD like
the great heroes in which stories are told about.
