Dragon Inside; Romans 5-8

May the mumbling commence!

The wait is over… at least for the casting of The Hobbit.  I am Thorin Oakenshield, son of Thror, son of Thrain – KING UNDER THE MOUNTIAN.  Look out Erebor – here we come.  I am pumped.  Can you tell?

Thorin isn’t perfect – far from it.  He is stiff-necked and self-centered.  And he lusts for wealth beyond imagining.  Hmmm…  Sounds like many of the people who populate the world.

Yes, dwarves need to be delivered from their dragons.  So do we.  We need to be delivered from the hoarding, paranoid, and suspicious nature of the dragons that live inside of each of us.  It makes me think of that old INXS song “Devil Inside”.  I reworked the song to feature the idea of “Dragon Inside” instead.  With my regards to both Tolkien and INXS, here is my parody of “Devil Inside”:

Here come the wood-elves / With desire in their eyes

March from Mirkwood / Plunder on their minds

Bows as weapons, arrows in flight / Makes you wonder if the others will fight / Others will fight

Here comes grim Bard / With desire in his eye

Left with nothing / But full of pride

Look at him go / Look at him lead

Makes you wonder how the others will bleed

The dragon inside / The dragon inside
Every single one of us the dragon inside

The dragon inside / The dragon inside
Every single one of us the dragon inside

Here are the dwarves / With desire in their eyes

Hoarding gold and hungry, certainly right / Look at their faces / Hardened, grim and fell

It's hard to believe we need a place called hell

If we are to defeat the dragon inside all of us, we need to approach God together.  We need to work together in tandem with the Holy Spirit of the living God.  And we are quite fortunate or “lucky” as The Hobbit would put it. 

God cares for us.  That does not mean that “God is on our side”; it means that God desires us to welcome us into the fold of His family.  For this reason – God’s great care for us – we have nothing to fear.  Read from Romans chapter eight (NASB):

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?  He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? 

Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. (Verses 31-34 / Chapter 8 NASB)

Thank the Lord.  Purge the demon or devil inside us all, O God.  Dragon be gone!  Be gone so that we may live in peace with one another and all the creation that the Great Creator has made.

Enough mumbling for now…

Peace Out