224 – What Would Your Superpower Be?

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I don’t know about you, but I love superheroes. All shows, even the terrible ones are great. Comics are amazing. Movies are fun. Even the fantasy shows are exciting. Why is that? It’s the powers of course. It allows those heroes, and villains, to do things normal people can’t do.

I often think what superpower I would have if I could choose. What would you choose? Would it be flight? Perhaps invisibility? Maybe time travel or invisibility? How about super strength? While those are cool, mine would be the ability to create a save point in life and go back to it. Think about video games. In a game, you can save your progress and go forward. Then if you die or don’t like what happened you can go back to your save point. You have all the knowledge of that future state and what to change but don’t of the consequences. Think about having multiple save points in your life. How fun would that be? What choices or chances would you take if you knew the outcome would be a positive one? 

While I think that would be awesome, I don’t worry about it as much anymore. Someone is already there and he knows what my choices will bring. 

Scripture on Seeing the Future

• For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. – Jeremiah 29:11
• I make known the end from the beginning,
      from ancient times, what is still to come.
  I say, ‘My purpose will stand,
      and I will do all that I please.’ – Isaiah 46:10
• If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. – 1 John 3:20

Reflection

God knows the plans for us. He has prepared a place and knows how all of this will turn out. It’s hard for us to not know what our choices will bring. I don’t know if I’m doing what is his will or what is my will. Through prayer, I believe that I am following his will. His word helps direct me in my daily interactions. 

While God knows everything, made everything, and planned everything, as a human is it hard to know it isn’t in our hands. We do all things through Christ. 

So while I would love to hit a save point in my life and come back later, would that change anything? My grandmother once told me, if I took all my problems and hung them on a clothesline and everyone else did the same with theirs, I would still choose mine. 

Sure, my life is not perfect. No ones are. My life is truly blessed. Those mistakes and regrets, are in the past and have made me who I am today.

Charge

What superpower would you choose? Then think about why you chose that? Next, think that God already has that ability and is using it to influence your life. All you need to do is believe in him and follow his word. 

Lord, help me to realize that I don’t need any superpowers. Through Christ, I am saved, and through your care, I will thrive.