I AM NOT A LEGO

I AM NOT A LEGO

By Dwight Cunkle

Recently I took two grandchildren to the LegoLand Movie. I think I enjoyed it much more than they did. It surprises me how much humor and truth is written into children’s cartoons that only “adults” will “get.”

What profound truth struck me from the movie?

Thankfully, our God is not like  “The man upstairs” in the  movie who is the “creator” and has ultimate “control,” but is unaware of mischief going on in Lego-Land. Our God came in the flesh and revealed himself as a personal and good God.

The different realms of Legos (Frontier, Castle, Pirates, etc. are all connected by mysterious passage ways (like the way C.S. Lewis has Aslan send the children to and from various worlds). The few who become aware of this realize they can affect what happens in the various realms for good or evil.

As I read Scripture this morning I contemplated God as Lord of the various heavens, the earth and things under the earth. Jesus humbly entered all these realms and ascended Victor but we are limited by time and space, except in spirit.

I pray God open our spiritual ears to listen with His ears and find his heart. We need to humbly enter into the “realms” of others and listen with them for God, following Jesus’ example. Our goal is to live fully in divine life and love in our daily life:  entering fully into all our times and places, bringing his life to those around us, always thanking God because He is working his glorious will in all realms.

Phil 2:3-11 In humility, count others more significant than yourselves. Look not only on your own interests but on the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.