I’m not sure why but for some inane reason I was thinking about Superman on my way to school this morning. Just imagine having to wear black-rimmed glasses all the time so people wouldn’t recognize you. Then there is that Kryptonite thing. Realizing that bad guys like Lex Luthor were out there with a substance that could destroy him must have been a nightmare. We too have an enemy stalking us. Peter uses a lion as a metaphor to describe our enemy. That could be frightening. Our enemy has been around since the inception of our world and he has special Kryptonite for each of us. It isn’t the same for everyone since each of us has our own unique weakness.
In my psychology classes we study various kinds of existent personalities. While each of us is unique it is also true that each of us can be compartmentalized into some very specific groupings. Our enemy is a master psychologist and knows which kind of Kryptonite he needs for our downfall. It could be love of money, pride, some kind of obsession or jealousy. Every one of us is vulnerable.
Now I don’t want to paint a bleak picture because there is great news. We have someone on our side who is so very much more powerful than our enemy and his Kryptonite. Paul wrote in Romans 8, “We are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Written by Roger Bothwell on July 31, 2009
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