Lessons from a SuperDog

Call me immature, call me childish.  Tell the world I have not yet chosen to grow up.  I don't care. I truly enjoy the movie Bolt.

Bolt is the story of an ordinary dog who thinks that he has super powers.  Super strength, super bark, super vision, he believes he can do it all.  When is owner is allegedly kidnapped, he travels across the country to rescue her from her terrible fate.  Despite the fact that is super strength vanishes, his bark has become ordinary, and he really can't see that well, Bolt continues to fight against all odds because he believes that he can not fail.   In the end, he manages to not only find his beloved Penny, but he rescues her from certain death.  He believed he could not fail; and, did you notice?  He didn't.

Bolt believed that he could do anything; and I think that is a vital lesson for us all.  My Pastor often asks the question, "What would happen if we actually believed this stuff?"  If we actually believed we could do all things through Christ?  If we actually thought our itty bitty faith could move mountains?

When I was a kid, adults at church always fed me the same line.  "God may not do what you ask him to.  He knows best and it will all happen in his perfect timing." As such, I have always prayed with the expectation that my prayer probably would not be answered, and only now do I realize the folly of my ways.  God can do anything, but how much more if we actually believed it?

I propose to be like Bolt.  While I do not intend to live my life believing I cross wide ravines in a single bound, I choose to believe that through the power within me, I cannot fail.