The Force is With You

So the greatest battle of all time - the battle within yourself. Luke and Darth are a wonderfully deep picture of something that's hard for many of us to grasp. The force is deep in Luke. It's strong with this young one. So strong that Darth wants to convert him to the dark side, to be a ruler because he'd be an AWESOME ruler on either side and lets face it, Darth didn't really want to fight the guy becuase he was incredible.

Luke has to come to a place where he recognizes the calling deep with in him and he has to pair it with the correct desires. Desire of the soul? Power. Desire of his spirit? Destiny - good - light. The "second half" of the SW series (being the last 3 in the series but the first 3 released) deal heavily with this inner struggle in Luke... will he be good or bad? Will he fall to the powers of darkness or will he stay with the forces of good? This battle, this war... how will it end?

So here's the question. What will you do with it? The force is strong in you as well. And, be it Jedi or prophecy or gifting or preaching or serving or whatever, it can be used for the good or destruction of the world. But there is no doubt that the force is strong.

Dont believe me? Look back on your childhood. Before the pain and dissapointments and frusteration and rejection. What did you want to do? What did you want to be? Did you want to change the world? I bet you did... most kids do. If not change the world, then be famous which breaks down to have an influence and be something special.... When I was a little girl, I wanted to be an author. It was evident off the bat that I was really good at writing and putting thoughts onto paper and making ideas speak aloud as if you were having a conversation instead of reading it. It was so easy. Write books, be creative. But then somewhere along the way I lost confidence and decided no one wanted to hear my ideas. That I wasn't going to make it as an author. That I wouldn't be read, that I wouldn't sell any books, and I'd have a collection sitting in my garage that I couldn't sell so I gave away as Christmas presents every year. And then I decided to be a teacher.

But when I graduated high school, student teaching courses in hand and ready to take on the world of college, I realised I didn't know what I was doing and I certainly didn't feel called to being a teacher. So I got married instead and had kids and took time to heal and see myself for who I really am.

Does that mean I know I'm going to be a great author? Not yet. I still get hung up sometimes riding shotgun in the dreams other people have for my life. But there's something to those dreams you have as a child and the strengths that are given to you. Nither does it mean that is what God wants to do with my life. This is just an example.

The point I'm trying to make is that there is a force that you have that may have been twisted and hidden and belittled and thought lowly of (like Luke doesn't think the force exists back when he's drinking blue milk at his Uncle's house). But that doesn't mean that force is not strong in you, or that the enemy won't stop it nothing to divert and destroy you. The question you need to ask yourself that comes to hand here is what will you do with that force that is most assuredly so strong in you?