No evil shall escape my sight.
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!!!
I have always loved - adored, revered, came-close-to-the-edge-of-worshipped comic superheroes.
One of the key reasons my great aunt Myrtle was so amazing and my memories are today as vivid as 40 years ago was her Bicycle fix it shop where she sold candy and comic books, and the very few times we visited I read carnivorously. While I read them all, and even saved my allowance to buy comic books as a kid, my favorites were the Fantastic Four, Spiderman, Captain America, and Green Lantern. It was recently that I thought about it, like it was vital knowledge, and found a key to my favorites. They were all ordinary, run-of-the-mill people that had extraordinary circumstances change them and thrust them into new life roles.
All of them struggle with their "gift", and yet they all use this power, this endowment for good to combat evil make the world a better place. I have always been drawn to those who choose wisely when faced with a dilemma. Mainly because I struggle with that exact trait. As a kid I wasn't as good looking, as big, as focused, or as talented as many of my friends. I wasn't the well dressed, or the one with the latest things, I was very ordinary. Yet in my head ordinary was defined as "loser".
Even after I became a Christian, and began to focus on a life of ministry, I stumbled and fell, and feeling like even God was backing a loser - twice, I walked away defeated. But God has such a broad plan, it even included fallible, pathetic me. God's word tells me "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here" 2 Cor. 5.17 NIV. That is powerful! "Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me" Ps. 23.4 NIV. Jesus told the Pharisees, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” Jn 8.12 NIV.
It's a stretch, I know, but Green Lantern's mantra is so Godly - so many times Jehovah spoke directly or through the pens of His chosen in scripture,
In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight.
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power, God Almighty, The Great I AM, Creator or heavens and earth's light!!!
Life was so crappy for the apostle Paul, yet from the lowly prison cell he wrote encouragement and hope. Today I see so much evil, and so many Christians policing and politicizing the world instead of shining the light of Christ, walking righteously --- NOT self righteously, leading people to the Truth, the Gospel. I have a super power. Jesus sent the Holy Spirit, I have written Scripture of Jesus' teaching, and I can step into a dark, cold, evil world and make a difference.
