Superman, Wonder Woman and Hope

Last night as I stood amidst of boxes and little room for movement, I thought about what I would do if I could not escape or really hurt myself. Who would find me and how would I let anyone know I needed help? Would I or could I begin calling loudly for help? The door was locked, my cell phone in another room. Would they (who ever they are) have to take the hinges off the door to get in? Or would it be a useless cry and only after days gone by would someone find me amongst the boxes. Nevertheless, as I inched more and more into the small area I pushed and shoved the furniture into place, yes, I knew that once again Wonder Woman had nothing on me! Ok, enough for one night, we will see what Wonder Woman will accomplish tomorrow night.

Later as I climbed into bed, I began thinking about all those Super Heroes of the past – Mighty Mouse, Superman, Wonder Woman and the rest. As we have become more and more knowledgeable about life, we find ourselves looking for a Superhero to bail us out of reality. Just as I was boxed into a small space, all too often our everyday realities have boxed us in to small confined places with no way out.
Today will show us as Americans running to the Polls to vote for someone to “save us”, to be our superhero. Not since 1960 has voter turn out been so high. We cry for change, we want change but we if we are not willing to change ourselves, not take responsibility for our own actions why do we think one man is going to do this for us. Is much easier for someone to bail us out, take us out and just be responsible for us so we don’t have to be responsible.
The list of issues and scenarios that have brought us to this place in time is not something that will change with a man. For now it has sunk us so deep that many generations have become deluded.

Recently I had dinner with a good friend. She and I talked about life and those scenarios that we have walked through and what we have seen through the years. She made a statement that has run in my ears – We have two or three generations of young people who don’t even know how to be whom they are suppose. We have girls, young women, that do not even know how to cook and take care of their children and boys, young men who don’t know how to be a man and take responsibility. And what is sad, is they don’t want to know, but they do want someone else to be responsible.
Millions turn to the internet to escape into cyber space what they would have liked to be in reality, opening one way doors that without the supernatural help of our Abba Father can never find a way of escape. On and on the list goes on. We have just about outsmarted ourselves. We have the answers at our fingertips, but we ignore truth, don’t want to know the truth, and then cry save me! But the cry is not to our Abba Father, it is to a man – a superhero of sorts.
As John the Baptist, Jeremiah and the other Prophets of Old, I say to you “Repent, Turn back to your Abba Father, Seek His face, not the President’s Face, Church face, the Pastor’s Face, but His Face. Look at your Abba Father, face Him. Ask Him what you can do in order to change the course of the journey you and your friends and family are on.

There is Hope – "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
(2 Chronicles 7:14)

So my question to you is: Are you expecting a Superman, are you Wonder woman or do you have True Hope in your Abba Father?