I admit it, I am a Batman junkie. It all started when I was five or six years old and got a pedal driven Bat-mobile to pedal around the yard with. Of course I was hooked on watching Batman (aka Bruce Wayne) and the boy wonder, Robin (aka Dick Grayson) and all the crazy villains they took on and defeated in every episode. I have passed that passion of Batman and Robin down to our soon to be five year old grandson(picture included) and am working on our two year old granddaughter .
One of the most familiar phrases when B&R were in a tight situation was Robin saying, "Holy (fill in the blank) Batman!" Thinking about this today got me to pondering about the (fill in the blank), the gap if you will. We all have gaps in our lives that need to be plugged by something other than a catchy phrase or phony smile. Allow me just a few lines to talk about the gap between our reputation and our character.
[callout]Reputation is what everybody thinks you are. Character is what you really are. And Jesus knows what your reputation is but He also knows your character because He knows better than anybody else. As He looks at my life and your life who better than He to say, “There are a few gaps here. You’ve got a few places in your life that people are thinking ‘this’ about you but you’re heading in the wrong direction. You’ve got a few gaps here, a few holes to fill in.”[/callout]
The gap between what you say and what you do. We can say great things but it’s tough to do them. You can say, “I love You, Lord,” but do you really? Let’s be honest. Isn’t it true that sometimes we love the things in this world more than the Lord? Little things. Like where I'm going to go out to eat or what movie I'm going to see. Do we think about that more than we think about the Lord? We don’t see God as even being a part of those things.
That’s the way you know the difference between what you say and what you really do – the gap. You say you want to be Jesus’ disciple, that you really want to follow Jesus Christ, but if you look at your life is there any real discipline in your life?
