Poseidon Adventure Living

     Illustrating a truth of The Disciple's Cross

Movies often mirror spiritual truths. Like the stunned passengers on board the doomed ship Poseidon, there is a "dazed" tendency in us also to go the wrong way. Tragically, they went deeper into the ocean by trying  to escape "upwards" above decks, not realizing that those decks were now submerged. Our world has been capsized by sin, yet it still makes sense to us to head the wrong way, trying to build life around ourselves, our strengths, our abilities, our accomplishments. Under the new order of redemption, all reliance upon self has to be abandoned in favor of trusting Jesus. That's why every step of growth in Christ begins with a fresh recognition of our fallenness. The way down actually leads us upwards!