[Obligatory Spoiler alert. If you care about every small detail being revealed when you see the movie and not before, then you may want to stop reading. Honestly, though... the big spoiler is coming tomorrow... so see the movie already!]
There are good people in this world; and we are not them.
I read a book by Donald Miller not too long ago called Blue Like Jazz. Honestly I did not like it at first, but I suppose it grew on me. One of the things that I often remember is his story about spending a month in the woods with pot-smoking hippies. Though he may not have agreed with all of their life choices or spiritual positions, they were the most loving, accepting, caring people he had met in his life... and he grew up going to church. It was a reminder that God created this world, and He is still present in many parts of it that we don't see or understand. Because of that we can expect to find good in this world even when we travel outside of our churches... and perhaps even because we have travelled outside our churches.
It is so easy to see the rest of the world as evil and me as good, but the fact is that without God I would have royally screwed up my life by now, and it is only by His grace that my current attempts are failing. One of the redeeming story lines throughout this latest Batman movie was that there are still good people in this world; people who will choose to do the hard thing, not just the popular thing; people who will sacrifice themselves for the good of their community. it amazes me that some of these people do not call themselves Christians. It saddens me that some people who call themselves Christian are not willing to make the same sacrifices. It convicts me when God reveals that same selfish restraint in my own heart.
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