IT'S ALREADY IN YOU

I was a big huge fan of the TV series Smallville. The show went off the air back in April of 2012 ending with the tenth season. Smallville was based on an interpretation of the story of Superman. If you have ever seen Superman the movie with the late Christopher Reeves, you know how the story goes. For those that haven’t and don’t know the story let me help you. It begins on a very distant planet called Krypton and these two parents with a new baby. The parents are putting him in a very unique vessel to ship him off. They are doing this because their planet is about to explode and they want their baby to be saved. They send the baby in the ship and the ship lands on Earth while everyone on the planet Krypton dies. Wow, now that’ll preach all by it. Isn’t it amazing how this man and his wife would sacrifice themselves so that their child could live? But that’s not where I want to park it, so let’s keep it moving.

This weird looking ship lands on earth and the baby has aged a little bit to walking age. The baby is walking up the hill towards the main road and Mr. and Mrs. Kent discover him. They pull over and decide to try to look for where the baby has come from. They see a ship and they put that into their truck and take the baby and ship home to their farm hiding the ship from plain sight. Now in the movie it fast forwards to how the boy grows up discovers he has powers, figures out how to use them, leaves home, disguises himself and becomes Superman saving the world while masquerading as Clark Kent.

Smallville picks up in between his discovery of his destiny and his childhood. The writers wanted to strip Superman to his "bare essence" with the goal of a no tights no flights rule, exploring why Clark Kent became the Man of Steel. The TV series follows Clark Kent and through high school dealing with his first crush. He discovers that there are green rock elements that came from his planet Krypton and this rock can cripple him making him weak so he has to stay away from it. In this amazing TV series it chronicles his life before he becomes who he was destined to be and his battle with finding that out.

As the tenth and final season comes to a close there is a part of this story that really grabs my attention. All throughout his teenage years and becoming a man, he has been getting guidance and help from his earthly father Mr. Kent and the guidance of the voice of his father Jor’El from Krypton. Along the way and when Clark becomes a grown man his earthly father dies and his mother Mrs. Kent moves miles away to the inner city to take on a new job. In the tenth and final season, Clark is faced with a discovering who he was destined to become. He discovers that he can no longer completely depend on the voice of his father from above, or his earthly father because he passed away. He must remember the words and guidance that were planted in him all throughout his life.

I was reading the Bible the other day and praying and I was led to this scripture in Deuteronomy 31. “Then Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel: ² “I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. The Lord has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’ ³ The Lord your God himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will take possession of their land. Joshua also will cross over ahead of you, as the Lord said. ⁴ And the Lord will do to them what he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, whom he destroyed along with their land. ⁵ The Lord will deliver them to you, and you must do to them all that I have commanded you. ⁶ Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”

⁷ Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you must go with this people into the land that the Lord swore to their ancestors to give them, and you must divide it among them as their inheritance. ⁸ The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”

Twice Moses repeats to him these words, do not be afraid or discouraged and be strong and courageous.

Be STRONG and not AFRAID

Be COURAGEOUS and not DISCOURAGED

I don’t know about anyone else, but I am right here at a point in my life that I am challenged to be strong (not easily affected by disease or hardship, not easily disturbed, upset, full of faith) and not afraid.

I need to be courageous (the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery) and not discouraged.

I need to trust that what my father has planted in me is enough to get me to my blessing and my destiny. Even if God has to move some things and some people to the side to get me there, it’s necessary. I have heard people say that he will move people out of your life. Maybe that is true, but what I have discovered is that sometimes God will change their role in your life. Much like what happened with Clark Kent. In order for him to become Superman, the people that had the most influence on him needed to take different roles in his life. His earthly father now became a memory and a voice of encouragement. His mother became a distant and best friend. The voice of his father Jor’El from Krypton became a memory also as he needed to trust what was in him and not depend on what was outside to be who he was destined to be.

I want to encourage somebody right now who is reading this to trust what’s in you. Often times we lose strength and courage because of what we see or hear on the outside. We get a bill in the mail, a court document, somebody says something that ticks us off, a phone call that catches us off guard, a loved one is ill or passes away, we get sick, we see things on the news or things happening in the world and we are affected and start losing heart. But I declare today that God is saying it’s time for us to be strong (not easily affected by disease or hardship, not easily disturbed, upset, full of faith) and not afraid. We need to be courageous (having the quality of mind or spirit that enables us to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; having bravery) and not getting discouraged.

We do that by reminding ourselves of what He said before. Reminding ourselves of whom he created us to be. We must remember like Clark Kent had to discover that it’s hard to fly when you’re weighed down by doubt and fear. You have to believe in order to fly. He couldn’t use his powers if he doubted himself. It was all what he allowed to happen on the inside. No need to chase down advice from people and seek after what to do next. Trust what God has already put in you. It’s already in you.