In the first X Men movie, there is a scene in which Magneto is about to turn Senator Kelley into a mutant. The line that he says right before raising into his machine sends chills down my spine even thinking about it. "God works too slowly". It would be easy to condemn him for saying such a thing. However, how many times have we thought or felt the same thing?
The world that we live in today is very fast-paced. Instant gratification. Two minutes to heat up a hot pocket in the microwave? I'll starve! Get to know somebody before dating them? Are you kidding? Technology is constantly trying to outspeed itself every year. If it wasn't hear yesterday, then it's too slow and too late. Patience has turned into a lost art.
It makes one wonder what the people in the bible would think of today's attitude. What about Sarah and Abraham? She was well beyond menopause when she first gave birth. How about Zacariah and Elizabeth? He had already given up on God answering their prayer for a child in a society that based a lot of your success on whether you had children or not. Yet John the Baptist was born when God needed him to be born.
In reality what we need to be doing is the same that happened in Joshua. When they bowed before the battle and did exactly what God said. March around the city wall, okay. We don't see anything happening but we will keep going. March until your shoes wear out then march some more. Eventually God will make that wall fall. And chances are it will be in a way that we would never expect it too.
Ian McKellen is the actor that played Magneto in that movie as well as the other X Men movies. However he does redeem himself. Not in X Men but in Lord of the Rings. As Gandolf in the beginning he says that he is "never late or early but presicely always on time" (or something to that effect). When we start feeling like Magneto then perhaps it would be best to remember that line and remember, God said it first. And he is ALWAYS on time.
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