I read once that Steven King had an epiphany when his daughter was 13. And no, I am not a fan of horror and there is nothing written by King in my bookshelf. Most of his stuff, from all I have seen probably, isn’t Christian strengthening material and we will leave it at that. Compared to some romance novels they might actually be better but that is another story and far from my point.
As I was saying King realized he hadn’t written anything his 13-year-old daughter would read. This inspired him to write “Through the Eyes of a Dragon.” A friend of mine convinced me that since I had a love of fantasy this might be a King book that I would enjoy, and I was surprised that I did and also that it had several strong positive messages in it.
One point in the story a young prince attends a banquet. Afterward, his mother tells him he did well, but he didn’t use his napkin the way he should. He, of course, points out that many of the other powerful men at the banquet didn’t use proper etiquette.
She explains that these little things make a difference because together they shape how a man will end up becoming. She shows the young prince the word god and the word dog. They both use the same letters but the way they are arranged changed everything. She says explains that men can by their actions become god (small g) or dog. Depending on how they arrange their lives.
This brings us to our Scripture in Psalms 82.
We see here a proclamation that God says we are gods as children of the Most High, but we are going to die like men.
We were designed to be something special in God’s economy. We were if I dare say meant to be gods and goddesses (not in the pagan sense, but in that we were the children of God).
Mankind blew that, but God has made a way to restore it through Jesus.
So, what are you going to do?
In conclusion, I would like to quote a very deep theological truth from CS Lewis’s book The Weight of Glory: (listen carefully)
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.”
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