I loved Avatar and let me tell you why! I want an Avatar machine. I am sure there is a technical word for that machine which I don't know, but wouldn't it be so cool to have one that was customized for Christians? I would wake up every morning, put my sinful natured self into the machine, push a buttong which would appropriately read "DIE TO SELF", shut myself up in the machine, relax, close my eyes and live just like Christ wanted me to live all day long. For you see, that is what we are called to do and boy is it hard!
Romans 8: 6-8 (from The Message) tell us:
"Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored."
So until the machine is invented that I can immediately climb into every morning and die to myself, I will just start my morning as usual praying:
"Lord, help me to die to myself today. Put aside my selfish intentions, habits, behaviors and attitude. Help me to be more like you and less like myself every day! In Jesus name, Amen."
