Live Long and Prosper

I just returned to my computer after seeing the movie Star Trek with my sons.  You are probably asking what does Star Trek have to do with the Bible!  The answer is "more than you think." But for this blog, there is only one comparison worth noting.

Near the end, Leonard Nimoy (Spock 1) greets Zachary Quinto (Spock 2) by  saying "I am not our father." Despite the temptation to discourse on the Lord's Prayer or Pater Noster or "Our Father" I will refrain.  However in departing, Nimoy avoids the traditional "live long and prosper" and closes with "good luck", seeing how the whole time travel incident has taken him back and he has already "lived long and prospered," making the greeting a bit redundant.  That is worth mentioning.  

The whole journey of faith is one of perspective. When our perspective is skewed, then our life's attitudes, actions, and logical analysis also become skewed.  The Star Trek film indicates that returning to the past with the end results already known leaves any wish for a successful future a bit overspoken.  But if I may be so bold, this is exactly how God intends for us to live. Because we live in a world situation that has been altered by God the rules don't apply to us in a restrictive and depressing manner.  Instead we have the promise of the god who intervened in human existence to bring about a new manner of living, a resurrected manner of living, that should alter our perspective from fear to faith, from despair to hope.

If it is possible in a movie to envision a change of time and realities, is it not possible in a Christian life to envision a change of time and realities?  It is this new perspective, this transformed mind, that the disciple of Jesus is called to embrace.  When we embrace this reality, our reality is altered by none other than the God who created both time and space.