*Warning some movie and show spoilers*
A theme that I have noticed in a few movies and television shows that I have watched is that for someone to save their loved ones they have to fall to some dark side. In Star Wars Anakin falls into the temptation of the dark side is powerful enough to stop death. In Once Upon A Time the main character Emma gives into the darkness to save the love of her life. Many of the other characters in many other series and movies do similar things to bring back those who they love or to protect their loved ones.
As I watch this I always wonder why, even though the dark side never wins, it is often viewed as more powerful. It can save our loved ones, it can give us all of these things. Despite the trend that it never works out for the villains or even the heroes who use dark magic, they are given great power. Being a fan of the light side this theme of powerful darkness has troubled me a little.
Until I remembered which side is more powerful in real life.
It is not death or darkness that wins in real life, no it is the light. God has the power to raise the dead, he raised his son for all of the world to live. God overpowers evil all the time, and the good side is going to win. The darkness is not more powerful in real life, we have immortality through God and Jesus. We have the holy spirit moving through us and if that is not amazing then I do not know what is. We are more powerful than the darkness. God has defeated it, and guess what.... that same power, the holy spirit, it moves through all of us. We have the force, and the light side is invincible.
I am so thankful that we do not live in the television shows and movies that glorify the power of the dark side (even if they are really good movies and shows). I am so thankful that God is more powerful than anything and that the light the goodness that moves through all living things, through you and me, is more powerful than the greatest evils of the universe. Love truly does conquer all and I could not be more thrilled.
Lately a song has been on the radio stations I listen to a lot, and no matter how repetitious it is or how many times I hear it I leave it on and I listen to the whole thing. That song is Same Power by Jeremey Camp. It fits this post I had no idea I was going to write, but here it all comes together just like it always does.
May God Bless You All.
Thank you for reading.
Breanna
As I read this, I was reminded of another favorite, Les Miserables, when Jean ValJean steals to feed his family, then the candlesticks. He spends his life on the run trying to do good all the while looking over his shoulder.
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