As I was enjoying a little episode five yesterday, I was struck again with some of the parallels that Star Wars has to Christianity. I especially felt a connection to the scene in Luke’s training where Yoda was trying to get him to pull his ship up from the pond. Luke kept complaining that it was impossible until Yoda did it. As he looked at the ship, now on solid ground, he exclaimed, “I don’t believe it!” then Yoda looked at him soberly and replied, “That is why you fail.”
It is somewhat similar to the statement often used by Jesus, “Oh ye of little faith!” The disciples had so many instances where they failed to truly believe that God was powerful enough to do through them what He said He could. You can’t really raise the dead, you can’t really heal the blind, you can’t really watch the lame walk and the mute talk and the mortal men walk on water. As Luke Skywalker said, “You ask the impossible!”
We need to remember that sometimes all we need to see the power of God in our lives is to truly believe that He will do what He said He’d do. Not what we want Him to, not what some preacher said He’d do, but what His word promises. We need to trust that our God is big enough to move the large obstacles as well as the small ones. Now, one greater than Yoda is here and woe to he who does not believe.
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