Of all the super comic book heroes, Batman is a normal
man, but uses gadgets and his Ninja training to do his fighting. I was watching
Batman Begins with my 6-year old grandson
since he got the DVD for Christmas. It’s been a while since I have seen it. I found
it interesting how Bruce Wayne in his ivory tower of riches could not
understand how the system of crime was taking advantage of people and
oppressing them and it made me think about how God sitting on his throne –how
could he understand what it is really like to be a man until God actually
became a man?
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14
Bruce Wayne gets himself arrested as a thief from stealing his own stuff from Wayne Enterprises so he can go to jail with criminals. Jesus was hung between two thieves on a cross. It also reminds me of how the Pharisees were trying to trap Jesus about paying taxes and Jesus pointed out he was God so he really did not have to pay taxes to the temple, but he would go along with man ’s government. God bridged the gap between Himself and man by sending his son Jesus who was born through Mary. He got sweaty, dirty, had BO, bad breath, and he endured every temptation common to man. The picture of Batman rescuing his love Rachel, reminds me how God rescues us as His fair Bride of Christ.
Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. Hebrews 2:18
Jesus emptied himself of his divine privileges and everything that Jesus did, we are capable of doing through God – he said these works and greater works we can do because he went to the Father if we have faith in him.
I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. John 14:12
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death--even death on a cross! Philip. 2:6-7
Right after Jesus rose from the dead, many slaves served Jesus. That is because they knew although they were in bondage to a man in this world; in the next world they would be free from man’s tyranny. They were the Lord’s free man. Being in bondage to man is one thing and being in bondage to sin is another.
For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord's freedman; similarly, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ's slave. 1 Cor. 7:22
If everyone thinks that this world is all there is---like it says we are “men most miserable.” Especially miserable to all those slaves, those born into poverty and oppression, those children who died early with cancer, and others who have lost their life if we believe there is no after life. Bruce was struggling to find his path in life when Jesus said, “I am the way the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father, but by me.” John 14:6.
Jesus gives us the path to eternal life. Our earthly bodies are going to pass away, but he will clothe us with a heavenly body. Jesus paved the road to the Father. He was more than a man, more than a prophet, he was God who came down so he can sympathize with our weaknesses as the great high priest who made atonement for our sins by the sacrifice of himself.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are--yet was without sin. Hebrews 4:15
He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness. Hebrews 5:2
Many of my struggles in life have been with people like Bruce Wayne that lack understanding of the plight of single parents and widows. Even when I was married, my husband commented several times how his dad would never understand me that I was a working woman supporting my children when his father supported his stay at home wife all his life. She did not have to struggle and strive to bring in food on the table for her children. My husband had custody of his son so he was a single father supporting his son, and then paid child support to his ex-wife for his daughter until she came and lived with us a few months after we were married.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14
Bruce Wayne gets himself arrested as a thief from stealing his own stuff from Wayne Enterprises so he can go to jail with criminals. Jesus was hung between two thieves on a cross. It also reminds me of how the Pharisees were trying to trap Jesus about paying taxes and Jesus pointed out he was God so he really did not have to pay taxes to the temple, but he would go along with man ’s government. God bridged the gap between Himself and man by sending his son Jesus who was born through Mary. He got sweaty, dirty, had BO, bad breath, and he endured every temptation common to man. The picture of Batman rescuing his love Rachel, reminds me how God rescues us as His fair Bride of Christ.
Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. Hebrews 2:18
Jesus emptied himself of his divine privileges and everything that Jesus did, we are capable of doing through God – he said these works and greater works we can do because he went to the Father if we have faith in him.
I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. John 14:12
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death--even death on a cross! Philip. 2:6-7
Right after Jesus rose from the dead, many slaves served Jesus. That is because they knew although they were in bondage to a man in this world; in the next world they would be free from man’s tyranny. They were the Lord’s free man. Being in bondage to man is one thing and being in bondage to sin is another.
For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord's freedman; similarly, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ's slave. 1 Cor. 7:22
If everyone thinks that this world is all there is---like it says we are “men most miserable.” Especially miserable to all those slaves, those born into poverty and oppression, those children who died early with cancer, and others who have lost their life if we believe there is no after life. Bruce was struggling to find his path in life when Jesus said, “I am the way the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father, but by me.” John 14:6.
Jesus gives us the path to eternal life. Our earthly bodies are going to pass away, but he will clothe us with a heavenly body. Jesus paved the road to the Father. He was more than a man, more than a prophet, he was God who came down so he can sympathize with our weaknesses as the great high priest who made atonement for our sins by the sacrifice of himself.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are--yet was without sin. Hebrews 4:15
He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness. Hebrews 5:2
Many of my struggles in life have been with people like Bruce Wayne that lack understanding of the plight of single parents and widows. Even when I was married, my husband commented several times how his dad would never understand me that I was a working woman supporting my children when his father supported his stay at home wife all his life. She did not have to struggle and strive to bring in food on the table for her children. My husband had custody of his son so he was a single father supporting his son, and then paid child support to his ex-wife for his daughter until she came and lived with us a few months after we were married.
It took my mother
awhile to “understand” my single parenting since she was with my father over
fifty years in marriage, but one day she called up and told me she was
listening to a radio broadcast about a woman who struggled as a single parent
with one child and she said –“Wow, you have five children you are working and
scraping by as a divorced single mother.” My mother was more compassionate to
me after listening to that Christian radio broadcast. John calls it
"putting on the bowels of compassion." If anyone has material
possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the
love of God be in him? 1 John 3:17
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