Astute Observation

We love to watch movies with our Crew. Shorty and I have found that for our family, movies are a useful tool to expose our Crew to the world and to worldviews different than our own. Recently we watched "Rise of the Guardians"-- three days in a row, in fact! =) Shorty and I were pleasantly surprised by the positive themes in the movie, like self-sacrifice, compassion, and the "god" character being stronger than the "evil" character.

As we were watching near the end, Adara made an astute observation. The bad guy was being chased by his minions, and she asked, "Why are they chasing their master?" So we got to have a conversation about how he wasn't REALLY their master. He had taken something that belonged to someone else and twisted it. But as soon as his power dwindled, they turned on him. And we talked about how Satan isn't really the master of sin. He tempts us to sin, but he is not greater than sin. HOWEVER, God is greater than both Satan AND sin! =)

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
Romans 6:12-18
 
For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,
Hebrews 6:13
 
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:4