What do the Song of Songs and the movie “Man of Steel” have
in common?
On the surface, not
much. The Song of Songs is a love poem
and “Man of Steel” is a movie about Superman (which my son Josiah and I went to
go see last Friday). It was good
one-on-one time for Josiah and me, but as I always tell him, all great hero
stories tell the story of Jesus (I won’t ruin the movie for you, but my theory
was right again).
But, the truth be
told, all of our stories fit into the greater story of God. The Song of Songs is part of the story of
redemption - the redemption of intimacy within the future coming of God’s
kingdom. And in a little scene that has
caught some attention, “Man of Steel” pictures how the larger redemption was
bought for us - Superman is told by his Kryptonian father (his “heavenly”
father) that he can save all humanity.
At that point, Superman floats out into the sky, his arms extended in
the shape of a cross before he flies back to earth to save humans. The story of God is written in all corners of
life. The questions for us are - Are we
reading it? Are we living it?
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