Colossians 1:17 “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
Do you remember Ursa, the Kryptonite villainess in Superman 2? She wreaked havoc on planet earth in pursuit of Superman’s destruction. Sarah Douglas, who played the role, spoke in an interview of an incident during the filming. In one scene, she picked up and threw a bus on 42nd street. Of course in reality she was in the studio, and but she had to keep her arm raised for hours on end during the multiple takes with the bus held above her by a crane. At one stage the bus slipped down six inches on the chain, and, she thought: “It’s slipping!” Instinctively she tried to push it back up, picking up a back injury in the process. She spoke of how if you spend the whole day dressed up like a superhero or villain, you start believing you are them. Reflecting on the incident, she said: “For that split second, I knew that I really was Ursa from Krypton, and it was my job to hold the bus up!”
This is often very much like us as believers – because by the grace of God he allows us to stand there on 42nd Street lifting up a bus in the air. Not literally of course, but he allows us to be involved in his work, and then we end up believing that it all depends on us; and then when the bus slips, we think: “That’s my job, I have to hold it up!” But God says: “It was never your job! I am the one holding the bus up. I love having you work with me. But remember that it is never you who is ultimately holding it all together, it is always me.”
Some of us really need to hear that. I know I do. Sometimes I put myself under ridiculous strain and pressure thinking the future of Burundi depends on me (how arrogant as well!). Any lesson there for you?
Lord, help me to trust you to keep the show on the road. Amen!
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