beauty and the beast

You know those really fat markers that smell? Well those were my favorite toys ever. I would play for one for hours and hours and I wouldn’t even use it to draw. The marker would transform into whatever I want. Sometimes it was me. Other times it was a dog, Aladdin, Simba, Batman, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, and anything else I wanted to be. In my imagination I was always a hero. Usually I was saving a girl. I loved flying magic carpets, being a king, dodging bullets, wielding two swords, driving batmobiles, and rescuing my princess. I lived fairytales in my head relentlessly with just a marker acting them out. No bad guy would dare mess with me. I was the best and would always win.

I know that in every persons heart they have a need and desire for adventure. It is biblical. Christianity is an adventure in it self. I really thank God for those times. I believe we are all heroes. I believe God gave me all of those dreams, I just might not actually be a ninja turtle. But I am actually a prince. I have a core value where I want to live everyday with a sense of innocence and adventure, just like a boy. The Living God is inside of me and He gave me that right. My bad guys are sin, sickness, and torment. I wield the weapons of righteousness, peace, joy, power, hope, faith, and love. Because Jesus is alive I still win every battle I fight.

There was a dream in my spirit for a long time that my soul didn’t really know was there. David had to command his soul to rejoice because it wasn’t as quick as his spirit. I know that to be true in many ways. At the end of Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast there is an amazing scene where Beast is pulled up into the air and was transformed into the prince. At last love conquered the curse and his dream became reality. Well as a young boy my spirit captured that image and God set it in me. My soul never realized it was there. I never talked of it. I believe the reason why God gave it to me is because God wanted to show my spirit who I am, how He actually views me, and what he wants to do with me. I am that prince and love has conquered this disease by my King and it will be reality on earth. The scene was implanted in my spirit and has never let me go.

Father I ask for grace and favor to live with innocence and adventure everyday.