In the 2006 film Superman Returns, Superman comes back to Earth after a 5-year trip to the remains of his home planet, Krypton. On his arrival he discovers that the world has largely forgotten him, so much in fact that his former girlfriend, Lois Lane, won a Pulitzer Prize for an article entitled "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman." When he gets a chance to see Lois he asks her to come with him for a quick flight. He takes her up above the city and as they gaze down on the bright lights he asks her, "What do you hear?" (Just in case you don't know much about Superman, he has supersonic ears that can hear everything), Lois responds, "Nothing." He looks at her and says, "I hear everything. You wrote that the world doesn't need a savior but everyday I hear people crying for one." I always thought that line was quite deep and especially these last few days as I read the news headlines. Here are several from today: Deadly Earthquake Rocks Chile Roadside Bombs Kill Seven In Afghan Attacks Nine Killed In Weekend Violence in Philly Tornado Levels House In Texas Panhandle Suicide Bombings Around Iraq Kill 46If ever the world needed a savior it's now. Unfortunately, we don't have a Superman to come swooping in and save us. But as a Christian I believe we have a Super God and He can save us from ourselves. But for Him to save us we need to cry out to Him. The world by and large has rejected God absolutely, its time we who haven't got up off of our butts and did something about it.
But we can't just explain to them that God can save them, we need to explain to them why they need God. The culture is saturated with violence and sex, but God is not allowed, which means this culture has no clue about who God is and what He can do for them. It's time for a change, and this means now!
The biggest story of this past week was of course the shooting at Va. Tech, "Why did it happen? people asked, are asking and will ask. The answer is because once God is taken out of the public mind human life is considered worthless, we abort babies everyday without thinking twice about it, euthanasia is everywhere, but we pretend that school shootings are more wrong than abortions. Who made the rules of right and wrong? God.
So if you don't believe in Him then there is no right and wrong, that means you can't call what happened at Va. Tech wrong, but everyone says it was and it is (I agree). But if there's a right and wrong then there is a right and wrong rule giver and He says that killing any human is wrong, whether that life is a college student or professor, an elderly person or a little defenseless baby.
Its time for the world to rethink its position, not on guns or nuclear weapons but on God. And the Christians need to help make it happen.
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