Dr. Who - Episode 1 (2005): Rose

I was watching the pilot episode of the 2005 Dr. Who last night.  I had no idea what the series was even about, so I was slightly off put when mannequins started coming to life trying to kill the girl we were introduced to.  After awhile, I begun to get a hang of what the show was about (especially after the Doctor made his appearance).

There is one line that I really liked in the episode, though.  The Doctor is trying to explain to Rose who he is.  He holds her hand and says to her...

"Do you know like we were saying, about the earth revolving? It's like when you're a kid, the first time they tell you that the world is turning and you just can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it...the turn of the earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour. The entire planet is hurtling around the sun at sixty seven thousand miles an hour. And I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world. And, if we let go... That's who I am. Now forget me, Rose Tyler. Go home."

It kind of reminds me how we, as Christians, sometimes get so overwhelmed the first time our eyes are opened and we see the world for how it is - that there is a Spiritual battle going on, that God is moving, the enemy is prowling around like a roaring lion, that we have a purpose beyond what the world tells us.  And then we kind of freak out and shut down...sometimes to the point that we blank out and don't really care about what's going on anymore.  Focusing so much on us, on me, on what I'm doing.  Instead, we should open our eyes again and realize that there is so much going on around us.

As Peter Parker told Harry Osborne in Spider-man 2, "There are bigger things going on here than you and me."  We need to remember that there are bigger things going on - that God is on the move, that there is a plan being carried out, and we have the honor and the joy of being part of His story, doing what we were made to do.

At the end of the episode "Rose", we get to see that Rose's world had suddenly been opened to this VAST universe of time and space.  No longer is she locked in to this little world of shopping and moving around.  No.  Now she lives this adventure.  As we read our Bibles, as we live our lives for Christ, may each of us see the big picture, see what God is doing, and excitedly run and join Him much like how Rose ran to the Doctor at the end.