So, I like Batman. In fact, I've liked Batman since...oh...since I was a kid. Knee-high to a grasshopper, in fact!
Don't think this is about the new movie, it's not. In fact, it has very little to do with the movie (comes in two weeks, in case you were wanting a tip). What it does have to do with, is Batman's -- or maybe just Bruce Wayne's -- discipline.
When I watch Batman battle the bad guy, what amazes me the most is his ability to stay disciplined and focused on the goal at hand. In the episode this most came clear to me, he was poisoned by the Riddler, or maybe the Penguin. Anyway, this toxin caused him to go crazy and do what he would otherwise NOT do. He attacked Robin and Batgirl, and was serving the will of the villain.
Then, after much pleading on behalf of his sidekicks, he stopped fighting them, and the struggle internalized. All of a sudden, he began to fight off the effects of the poison. And soon, he was free.
How it resonated within me was as an equation of sin and discipline in my Christian life. I'm a fallen creature that is sinful. I fall to temptation to do things I don't want to do (this is biblical, by the way), and have a hard time doing the things I want to do. I need to be like Batman, and fight the temptation to do what I shouldn't, and instead do what I know (deep down, beyond all the temptations) I ought to do.
If you get nothing out of this, please know that we can beat temptation and sin. Not on our own, but with the grace of God, but sin and tempation can be beaten.
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