Sin: One Ring To Rule Them All
TNT has ran each of The Lord of the Rings movies each night tis weekend. I absolutely love those movies. What a mind God gave J. R. R. Tolkein who actually played a role in the conversion of C. S. Lewis. For those of us who are fans of the movies we all remember the scene where Frodo and Sam have finally made it to the chamber in Mount Doom. Frodo is standing on the edge with the ring held in his outstretched hand. Before we get into that let's look back through the story and wha all he has been through to get there. He is told this ring if not destroyed will mean certain doom for the peoples of Midde Earth. He sets out on a journey away from his home and the only place he has ever known. He is chased through the forrest by nazgul which are bascially demons on horseback. He is forced to trust a man he has never known of. He is stabbed by one of the nazgul and in the book suffers for over two weeks before he is finally healed by the elves. He sets of on a journey with 8 others to ake the ring into what is basically the depths of hell. On this journey they almost freeze trying to pass over the mountais and endure a three day jorney though a cave swarming with Goblins. Still he presses on having to leave his companions because of the temptation the ring has. He is forced to trust a creature who wants nothing ore than to possess the ring he carries. He is almost eaten by a giant spider, captures and excapes from orcs, crosses the barren plains while avoiding being detected by the eye. All this just to get to that point wherehe need only to let go and all that he set out to do is finished and complete. But he lingers and the temptation get to him. He rips the ring from the chain and puts it on his finger. The book is a little less climatic than the movie because after Smeagol bites off his finger Smeagol dances around loses his balence and falls in the volcano. Is tht not a spot on picture of what sin is. It is equally destructive, dangerous, and entangles easily. We are like Frodo who are at times so close to dropping our sin an we yank it back and delve back into it. Paul talks in Romans 7:14-25 about how he doesn't do what he wants to do and does that which he doesn't want to do.
Let go is so much simpler in word than in action. I pray we may all be able by the power of Christ to let go what needs to be let go.
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Today is getting a bit painful in that yearning kind of way. an emotional curve ball has been thrown into my life and one of my oldest friends, I haven't seen her in a very long time and I have liked her for a longer time, has enrolled at my school and I saw her and her brother yesterday again for the first time in about 6 or so years. and it has dug up my curiosity of what is going on here, I am still hanging in there, but it's kind of emotionally stressful. I am pretty sure that I am where God wants me to be, but sometimes I would like intricately detailed instructions about what to do in these situations.
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[quote="scottsmith10"]HA HA!!! I can actually do a great Smeagol voice.[/quote]
Unfortunatly, I can method act a great Smeagol!
HA HA!!! I can actually do a great Smeagol voice.
It's my, my.............PRECIOUS!
I highly recommend that you watch them and when you do watch the extended versions because there is a lot of added scenes in those that were not in the theatrical version that give you more of the story. Each movie (The Fellowship Of The Ring, The Two Towers, & Return Of The King) are around 4 hours long. With the extended editions each movie is on two discs so you can split the whole series up into six sessions. You might get bored with the first part of the first movie but don't let that stop you. The second movie is more exciting and the third one is just phenominal.
Hey, Scott;
I've never actually seen the LOTR movies, or read any of the books, but the analogy that you gave is so spot-on.
That could be an analogy of the lives of any of us, I think. I am reminded of Romans 6, where Paul talks about being crucified with Christ.....that in order to [i]drop our sin[/i], we literally have to die unto ourselves, and be crucified with Christ so that we may be resurrected with Him.
[quote]All this just to get to that point wherehe need only to let go and all that he set out to do is finished and complete[/quote]
I really like what you said here, especially the part about being finished and complete. It reminds me of this [b]Phil. 1:6[/b]:
[i]Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it [b]until the day of Jesus Christ[/b][/i]
Throughout our lives we will continue to stumble, and sometimes fall back into sin, just like Frodo, but even so, we are a work in progress, and God won't be through with us until we meet Him in glory:
[i][b]Col. 1:28[/b]Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, [b]that we may present every man perfect (complete) in Christ Jesus.[/b] To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.[/i]
That's when we, and all we set out to do for God, will be finished and complete in Christ.
[i][b]Col. 2:9,10[/b] For in Him (Jesus) dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, [b]and you are complete in Him[/b], who is the head of all principality and power[/i]
Don't you think this is a great analogy of our Spiritual walk?! God will never give up on us, and He is glorified through us now, but one day, we will be fully glorified in Him.
How true! I've never seen any of the movies, but indeed, we do tend to fight to hold onto the very things that are destroying us, sigh. I've even gone so far as to ask God why doesn't He "just do something", like "smash me"..."break me", smile. Ughh.