Endings & Expectations

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Going into The Rise of Skywalker, it felt necessary to temper my expectations. There was no way that in just over two hours J.J. Abrams would be able to satisfactorily tie up all of the storylines from the eight movies that preceded it in the Skywalker Saga. There just wasn’t enough time, and it’s impossible to please everyone.

But boy did he try.

I found myself thinking it was almost too perfect. The bow was wrapped just a little too neatly. I mean, come on, J.J., can everyone really have the perfect happy ending? It became difficult to suspend my disbelief.

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Sometimes I get the same feeling reading the book of Revelation. As God shows us how the end of the Human Saga will wrap up, it almost feels too perfect.

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

Revelation 21:3-4

I mean, come on, God, can everyone really have a perfect happy ending? Can I really have a perfect happy ending?

Rather than suspending my disbelief, it’s easier to just settle for disbelief. Like the Israelites wandering in the desert, it’s easier to find a golden calf to worship rather than trust that there’s a Promised Land waiting for me. It’s easier to find an immediate source of gratification than to trust that the God who has never broken a promise he’s made to me will keep the promises in Revelation.

As I do this time after time, I ask again: can I really have a perfect happy ending? Do I deserve a perfect happy ending?

I need to fall at the feet of Jesus and exclaim with the man in Mark 9, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”

I do believe that I don’t deserve a perfect happy ending.

I do believe that Jesus came to earth to change my ending.

I do believe that Jesus made me a member of his family through baptism.

I do believe that through that baptism I have new life and a new ending.

I do believe that I don’t deserve it, but because of Jesus I will have a perfect happy ending.

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Maybe you loved how the Skywalker Saga ended. Maybe you hated it. Maybe you wish it would have ended differently for Rey or Kylo or Poe or Finn. For as perfect as J.J. Abrams tried to make the ending, even he knows he couldn’t do it perfectly.

But we’re used to that by now. We know there won’t be a perfect movie, a perfect story, a perfect song, a perfect painting. We’re used to tempering our expectations because we’re used to an imperfect world. 

So it’s easy to be cynical and think that heaven can’t possibly be as amazing and perfect as God promises it is. It’s easy to feel like we need to temper our expectations. But we don’t. It is amazing and perfect, because God promises it is.

“I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”