It's All in the Nature

We watched "Wreck-It Ralph" with our Crew a couple weeks ago. The kids laughed-- Shorty and I did too! =) It was really cute. My favorite part, though, wasn't all the funny, silly stuff. I told Shorty on the way home that I LOVE that the characters had to behave within their natures. What I mean is, Ralph is Mr. Destruction in his video game. But he's lonely-- I mean, who wants to keep a guy around who destroys EVERYTHING he touches?!? ;) So Ralph decides that he doesn't want to be the "bad guy" anymore and sets out to prove that he doesn't have to be. His only problem is that, even when he's being "good" he can't HELP but break stuff! And the same is true for Fix-It Felix-- Ralph's "good guy" counterpart. He ends up in jail in another video game, and when he uses his golden hammer (which fixes things) to try to break the worn away prison bars, they go back to looking like new! =D

I love that concept because it holds true in real life. Without God's intervention, people have to act a certain way- in accordance with their natures. But when God saves a person, He gives a NEW nature!

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience-- among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Ephesians 2:1-3
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
2 Corinthians 5:17
 
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.
Galatians 4:8
 
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith." For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Romans 1:16-20