Dystopia

It seems like this days there is a fascination for dystopian novels and movies. Dystopia is "an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one." Movies like, Hunger Games series or Divergent, in which a hero from humble origins is placed in a situation to fight the totalitarian oppression or regime, in which people has apparent freedom, but in the reality, they are slaves and oppressed by the system. 

Worlds in which people is suffering in silence, unable to fight back and just complacent with their sad way of leaving, thinking "that is the way life is anyway". There, people not even think about rebel to the system, because, it is scary, impossible or even unthinkable. That is the way it is until someone decides that "enough is enough" challenging the regime with great struggle and even little help from others, at the cost of their own life to earn something unknown for everyone else, "freedom". For me this illustrates the need of our generation to say "enough is enough". Whether is sin, addiction, fear, past wounds, emotional hurts, rejection, bitterness, guilt, shame, insecurity, etc. 

A well known minister once said to me, "to keep your freedom you have to fight back". And what better way to fight like the way the Bible describe it, "casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ"  2 Corinthians 10:5.

Like in one of this movies, Mockingjay, where people is even willing to die as price for their freedom, we should have the same energy and conviction to fight against our personal oppression, struggles, fears and sin. But as in this movies we need to be trained and armed with weapons to fight this enemies, not with a physical bow and arrow but with more effective spiritual weapons and fight the things we are struggling with. 

We need to "be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore we take up the whole armor of God, that we may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand." 

We have to say "enough is enough" and rebel  agains the totalitarian things that have us captives. Not with our own strength but Jesus' strength who paid the price of our freedom of the slavery and oppression. When we struggle with something and God show us the whole picture and the consequences of continuing with the same life style, we realize "YOU KNOW WHO IS AND WHAT THEY DO. THIS IS WHAT THEY DO! AND WE MUST FIGHT BACK!"