This is part of Emptied & Humbled, a movie based Lenten devotional. The whole devotional can be found here.
Lent is about sacrifice. It is a time for us to contemplate and to consider what Jesus did for us. These last few weeks we’ve looked at Philippians 2 through the eyes of Spider-man 2, Wreck-it Ralph, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Frozen. This week we are looking at Philippians through Finding Nemo.
Nemo is lost because he disobeyed his father. And yet it is his father who will sacrifice to find Nemo.
Marlin feels safe in his community. But because Nemo got caught, Marlin sacrifices his own ambition – to stay safe in his community – to go find his son.
Marlin left something – and somewhere – to save Nemo.
So did Jesus.
Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility,be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself. Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well. You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped, but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature. He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death – even death on a cross! (Philippians 2:3-8)
Jesus left heaven. He left the Father. He emptied himself and humbled himself to save us.
Just like Nemo’s dad, Marlin. He left his home to go find his lost son.
Just like the woman who searched for her lost coin, just like the shepherd that searched for his lost sheep, and just like the father looking for his son, Jesus was born the Son of Man to save us.
Today, remember that Jesus sacrificed himself to save you.
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Did you know I wrote a whole devotional based on Finding Nemo? You can check out Sharing God’s Story with Finding Nemo over at Amazon.
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