True Love

Saw the movie "Frozen" with my wife and kids today. It is interesting that the movie is about true love expressed through a self-sacrificial gesture that brings life to Anna and to her town. As prince Hans lifts his sword to kill Elsa sister Anna runs over and puts herself between the sword and Elsa. She takes the blow for Elsa. As a result she does not die. But her true love brings life back to her frozen heart that would have ultimately killed her. As a result also life in terms of Summer returns also to the kingdom of Arendelle that lay in the frozen death grip of winter.   This is the story also of Easter. True sacrificial love bringing life and hope of restoration to a dying world. Jesus death on the cross for the sins of the world and his resurrection usher in a new life. Frozen hearts are now softened towards God,  and death now also melts away under the heat of an everlasting life.  It is so interesting that even though a secular world celebrates this love through this movie it mocks Christianity for its belief in such a love expressed through the cross of Christ! It is foolishness they say. Yet they crave it so much that they dream of it through a 150 million dollar movie.

1 Corinthians 1:18-25: For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ¹⁹For it is written,
‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
   and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.’
²⁰Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? ²¹For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. ²²For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, ²³but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling-block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, ²⁴but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.