Um. Wow. Time sure passes quickly. How many days since I last posted?
I'm posting now because...well, here's the run-down:
1. Yesterday was "The Day of the Doctor." It was Doctor Who's 50th anniversary, so they put on an anniversary special. It was simulcast all around the world. (Stick with me. This post is NOT all about Doctor Who.)
2. The show was broadcast on BBC America, which I don't have...so I researched, but there was really no way for me to watch the show until BBC released it to iTunes, Amazon, and all that. So, instead, I watched some background videos and the first episode of the show, "An Unearthly Child." I liked it.
3. This morning, I woke to see that "The Day of the Doctor" was now available for me to watch. So I watched it. I watched the Doctor(s) combine their efforts to live up to their name and save some people. He, the Doctor, is always saving people. It's what he does. It's who he is.
Now that you've got the necessary background information, on the the point of this post.
After watching, I said to myself, "Alright, now on to real life" and opened my Bible app.
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.
Okay, immediately I thought of the Doctor...quickly followed by, "Wow, too much Doctor Who." He goes to other worlds to seek and save the lost.
But it's fiction.
How many stories, though?
How many stories are based on this same idea: a rescuer?
However many there are, they are all patterned after the greatest story ever told, the non-fiction Doctor Jesus who really and truly, in physical form, came to search and rescue. Seek and save.
That's the BEST sci-if story ever!
I mean, really? The son of God coming to His created planet, in the form of one of His created creatures.
(And God is the ultimate Time Lord, so who knows why He even chose the time He did to live upon the earth?)
It's not just sci-fi. It's romance, adventure, fantasy, mystery, all at once and yet not at all. Because it wasn't fiction.
It was real.
That's why it's the greatest story ever told.
Because our Doctor, Lord, Master, God, Jesus really and truly came, in physical form, to search and rescue. Seek and save.
