Yes Internet, I’m a great wife. A totally awesome, sacrificing and long-suffering, loving wife who will endure two hours of comic book movie magic because my husband enjoys fictitious comic characters who save humanity in under two hours or less. Like I said, I’m a great wife. 😉
So when Matt told me Green Lantern was coming to the big screen, I prepared myself for two hours of explosions, flying things, and men in tights. Surprisingly, I enjoyed the acting and the few choice tidbits of writing which sparked new thinking in my approach to how I live out my faith.
Don’t worry, I’m not going to ruin the movie for those who haven’t seen it, but there is this one scene while Hal Jordan is training to be a Green Lantern and he’s told his greatest power is his imagination. Essentially, if he could dream it, he could use it. While evil villains fling bombs, Hal can imagine a wall and BOOM! There’s a wall! And if a villain tries to get around the wall, he could imagine a protective bubble of radioactive power and BOOM! He’s safe!
Look, I know Hal Jordan is fake. And there’s no Green Lantern. And I’ll never look like Blake Lively. But one thing I did walk away from was how powerful our God is. Hang with me for a second! Let me set this up.
From scripture we know that God is able. We see it over and over again in scripture. There’s a Philistine giant? No problem! Send the 12 year-old boy to kill him with a stone. There’s the Red Sea and 1.2 million Jews need to cross? Ain’t a thing! God will just part that bad boy right down the middle so they can walk on dry land!
So we believe God is able. But the thing that got me the hardest as I left the theatre [<—Note: I’m fancy] was the fact that scripture tells us that not only is God able, but He’s more than able do more than we can think or imagine.
We have our dreams, but like Hal Jordan, do we really know how big to dream? Is that the best we can do? We serve a God of limitless possibilities. If you can dream it, He can do it.
He is able. He is able to do. He is able to do more. He is able to do more than you can think. He is able to more than you can think or imagine. He is able to do immeasurably more than you can think or imagine. [Ephesians 3:20]
This is our God.
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