About a month ago we decided to watch the Lord of the Rings movies, starting with the three Hobbit movies that I'd never seen before. Predictably, I found a few things to blog about.
The scene I want to talk about today comes in the third Hobbit movie. For those who don't know the story there's a dragon who has been sleeping in a mountain, by the time you get to the third movie- *SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*
Okay, now that we settled that- by the time you get to the third movie the dragon is awake and it's attacking the town of Laketown. There's only one thing that can defeat it, a special black arrow and there's only one fatal spot. where there is a scale missing on the dragon's hide. The archer, Bard, has to hit that exact spot while the dragon is flying but the dragon, Smaug, breathes fire and destroys the bow.
Bard's son is in the tower with him and Bard, in order to save everyone, has to stretch the bow string between two posts and rest the arrow on his son's shoulder in order to stabilize it so he can get off the shot. His son keeps looking over his shoulder, looking at his town going up in flames, people screaming and trying to escape and the dragon wreaking havoc to all he knows and loves.
Bard calls to him, "Bain. Look at me. You look at me."
It got me thinking, isn't that what our Heavenly Father says to us? Look at me. Don't look at the chaos that your life has descended into, don't look at the mistakes you've made, don't look at the uncertainty of the future, look at the Father. Keep your eyes on Him, no matter what, and He will deal with everything. Our job is only to trust, no matter how awful things look, our job is to keep our eyes on Him, His job is to deal with everything else.
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3:5-6
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