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Thursday, November 26, 2015

You Are Not A Glitch!

If you have young kids, or if you're awesome, you are familiar with the movie Wreck It Ralph.  If you are just boarding the awesome train I'll update you.  It is set within a video game.  Old school video game.  Ralph wrecks everything.  Felix is the good guy that fixes everything.  However, Ralph isn't really a bad guy.  He longs to be part of a community and his search for acceptance eventually leads him into another video game called Sugar Rush.  Here he meets a glitch. (ya know, like a programming error) Vanellope is considered a "glitch" in the game by her piers and the two make an unlikely team of heroic....yada yada.  Go watch the movie.  It's great.  But this is where the awesome train stops and we get off.  I wanna talk about Vanellope Von Schweetz the Glitch.
King Candy, the ruler of Sugar Rush, tries very hard to push Vanellope down.  He keeps her from her potential.  He sets others against her.  He tells everyone it is for her own good and he is protecting her from harm.  LIES!  All lies.  Toward the end of the movie ***spoiler alert*** we discover Vanellope isn't a glitch at all, but she is actually the queen of the game.  She is royalty being treated poorly by an impostor.  Here's where it gets real people.  Change the names just a bit...
Put you in Vanellope's place.  Put Satan in King Candy's place.  If you have placed your life in God's hands you are royalty.  The star of the show.  The apple of His eye and you are unstoppable. However, King Candy - er...Satan out of his jealously and rage will do all he can to bring you down.
He is the father of lies and, my friend, his first lie is that you are a glitch.  It sounds a little somthin like this....
God can't love you after what you've done...you're a glitch
He doesn't forgive that type of sin...
You are not as talented as that guy...
Who are you trying to fool?  You're no...you are a glitch
You need this to make you happy...
You deserve your crummy life and you'll never be anything but a glitch
You are an unfit mother because you...
You forgot again...glitch
No one wants to be your friend...glitch!
Just stop trying...GLITCH!

But God says...
I can fix that.
I love you.
I've got a blessing prepared for you.
Don't give up.
I forgive you.
My grace is enough to cover you, heal you, and set you free.

My dear, dear friends.  Each of us messes up.  Daily.  But none of us are a glitch to God.  You are royalty and loved by the true King.  Rest in that.
And then go watch Wreck it Ralph and cheer for Vanellope!

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