Captain America

This was a little amusing to me, and I was wondering if it was too silly to use an example, but as I was doing my devotions this afternoon, this is what I saw. I was writing and thinking to myself, trying to hear what the Holy Spirit might be saying to encourage and challenge me toward, and I suddenly got an image of Captain America.

I guess this is one way that God speaks to me personally, using characters and ideas I love to tell me things. I feel like what He was saying is that he sees me like this already. I also think that Captain America is the kind of person we all want to be like, to have a legacy that changes the world, to be a part of a symbol of hope and optimism, fighting bullies, and refusing to let the enemy, angry people, or even military might force us to do something we know isn’t right.

He didn’t start out that way, but that was always who he was. He was scrawny and weak, by human standards, but he had big heart and an innate desire to be the good guy. And not to be the “good guy” for his own sake but for everyone around him.

He ends up stronger and wiser and more durable than anybody else. He can take whatever gets thrown at him and can throw it back. His “weapon” is built around defending, and actually becomes the inspiration for an entire group of people to be a “shield” for the innocent.

But again, he was already that kind of person, deep inside. What made him stronger simply took the good that was already inside him, and elevated it. He was made stronger because that is who he was always meant to be.

He is a shield, and there is no evil that can keep him from standing firm.

Also he says this:

I want to be like Cap.

If the Holy Spirit sees me like that, as that kind of person, I can be, because He’s with me.