Earlier tonight I finished reading a comic I had purchased
some time ago but never finished. It was a Superboy Annual from 1994. This particular year all the Annuals were
part of what DC Comics calls Elseworlds. I personally love the Elseworlds
series because it does one simple thing. It asks, “what if?” The end result is
sometimes awesome, sometimes stupid, but somehow always though provoking.
In one such Elseworlds book they asked the question, “what
if baby superman’s ship was knocked slightly off course and he landed in the
out skirts of Gotham City instead Smallville?” In this book the Waynes find
this celestial orphan and adopt him thus never having Bruce. End result is
instead of Clark becoming Superman, he becomes Batman.
Another series of Elseworlds called “Batman: Brotherhood of
the Bat” and its sequel “Batman: The
League of the Batmen” takes a look into the future. Here it asks a few
questions, what if Talia & Bruce had a son named Tallant (concept of a son
came about in 1987 but the child was unnamed, later in 96 they decided settle
with the name Damian). Then they ask what if Talia’s father, Ra’ al Ghul, had
killed Bruce and succefully destroyed much of the world and created a league of
assassins who wear rejected designs for Batman’s costume. Later in the second
book Tallant creates the League of Batmen to combat his grandfather’s evil
desire to destroy the world.
Rather intense stuff.
But back to what happened tonight, as I was reading the Superboy comic I
begin to think about the fact that one small change in the history of these characters
and their lives become dramatically different. A shift in the wind and a Superman becomes a Batman. A change of location and a Batman becomes a
secret agent. One simple aspect and the
entire world is different for them.
Then I begin to think about how different my life would have
been had I not accepted Christ. The path I could had taken had a 14 year old
boy not walked to the front of small church in Ash Grove, Missouri and accepted
Christ as his Lord & savior… well who knows where I could had ended up. I
suppose statistically I could had ended up in a life of drugs and alcoholism. I
could had become a womanizer. Today I could be shacked up with some woman with
kids by 2 and 3 other women… I could be dead.
So many crazy possibilities had I not done one simple thing.
I am so thankful for Christ. I am thankful for the salvation He has given me
and the sanctification that the Holy Spirit brings me through. Truly without
Him, I’d be lost. I want to encourage
you, take a moment and ponder what your life would be like if you had not truly
accepted Christ as your Lord. I know for
me that thought has brought me to thankfulness, how about you?
