Stargates dial Jesus, apparently

I watched Stargate all day; it's all I felt like doing. The only thing you need to know about it for this blog is that the bad aliens have a kind of power that enabled them long ago to step into the personas of the ancient gods and rule people. Sort of took our "myths" and ran with them. The show follows a team of four intrepids who run around the galaxy fighting these guys, and watching reminds me that a.) there's a lot of universe out there, and b.) there's a lot of evil out there.
And then tonight as I was reading John with all that stewing in the background of my mind, I got to 15:33: "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

Wow. Big word, overcome. It's a Greek one, νικάω, meaning "to subdue (literally or figuratively): - conquer, overcome, prevail, get the victory."

If you could see the pictures in my mind it would make more sense. There I see the world from space. All around it and through it like overlays of film I see the many stories of Stargate, and our own history. It's all in motion, epic battles between good and evil, civilizations rising and falling based on their beliefs and the will of God, oceans and sand and stars. It's color and time-lapse and darkness all at once. And then two contexts emerge like alternate time-lines. In one, the God-less universe of Stargate where mankind is our own greatest hope, and victory and defeat are only one lucky guess or one false step away; in the other, the only All-Powerful Being, by some miracle, is GOOD. He placed the sun and the moon in the sky with His own hands (have you ever actually read Gen. 1:17?), and then when His greatest creations destroyed His world and chose to follow a false god, He came down, became one of us, and beat the devil. I need to be reminded of this often. Stargate gives me a coveted perspective: that of being outside this daily life, which tends to get myopic. But from that vantage point I see much more than their little plot lines. I see that our story, our true history, is ever so much more exciting and perilous and real. And so is our God.

He has overcome the world: what a truth to build a life on!