The movie After Earth
with Will Smith is filled with parallels of biblical concepts. There was one of
a beautiful example of how the Holy Spirit is always with us. When we are
really connected to God then the power of the Holy Spirit grows within us. The
movie is about a father and son who find themselves back on planet Earth which
is currently hostile to human survival. The father sends the son out on a
mission to save them both otherwise they will die. But the son has a
communication devise on his arm and a video devise on his back that keep him in
contact with his father and the father is able to see everything that could try
to harm his son. The son finds himself in dangerous frightening scenarios and
the father calmly talks him through them, helping him calm his fears and focus.
Over the course of the mission, the son is growing in his confidence and finds
himself rebelling against the father. The son ends up doing something very
dangerous and ends up without his communication devise so he can’t talk to his
father and hear his father. But his father can still see all that is happening and
is still talking to him like he can hear him. There was a beautiful moment when
the father was talking to the son to calm his fears and the son not being able
to hear the father was grounded in what the father had taught him. So when the
father says , “take a knee” , the son was taking a knee. In the end it was like
the power of the Holy Spirit came to fruition within the son and gave him the
power to conquer his fear. The father was with him every step of the way. Our journey of faith is like this mission: we
accept Jesus into our hearts, work on building a growth foundation and connecting
relationship with God and the Holy Spirit will work within us and the fruit of
that relationship will be demonstrated in our character. Fostering that
relationship is the key to the fruit of the Spirit growing within us.
2Corinthians
3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and
where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
