Zebra Ministries

Good morning Zebras,

I love you.

Everyone who knows our family knows we are Marvel fans.  Gary loved Marvel as a boy and he passed that love on to the kids.  While some fathers played catch, Gary lined up the plastic X-Men and lead the kids in a huge imagination games.  Because of that God has used Marvel to help me explain the sometimes-unexplainable things to Gary.

For example, at the beginning of all of this, when I was wrestling with how to explain the changes God had made in me, He told me to tell Gary I was Spiderman.  So, I did and because it was from God, he had already told Gary the same thing.

But even if you don’t have this weird God relationship with Marvel, I think it would be impossible to miss the Biblical message in Thor Ragnarok.

Ragnarok, is the Asgardian equivalent of Armageddon.  (Asgard is Thor’s home planet.)  I don’t want to give away the ending but suffice it to say, biblically we know, prophecy always comes true.

Throughout the movie Thor’s actions are driven by the fact that he knows prophecy and he is trying desperately to stop it.   In the end, he wasn’t strong enough to keep it from happening, but his actions did make a difference.

Zebras, as I said yesterday, our actions, if built upon the foundation of Jesus Christ and done at God’s request make a difference.  But if they are done for any other reason, they are simply wood, hay and stubble destined to be burned away.  And it is hugely important God’s people learn the difference

1 Corinthians 3:11–15 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.  Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.  If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.  If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.     

None of us are not strong enough to prevent the disaster that coming upon the earth, but each of us have the power to pray and work towards helping people escape.

Love,

Jill

P.S. If you need God to give you a sense of urgency, and you don’t hate superhero movies, pray about going to see Thor, asking God, before you go in, if there is something He needs you to see.