Finding Nemo

 I’m bringing up Finding Nemo to introduce a new Bible lesson to you. You’re probably thinking, Finding Nemo…blogging…can they even fit together? I answer with a simple, yet confident, YES. Every Disney movie has Bible based morals, or so I think…I can pull about any Bible based moral I want out of any movie. That may be just me, but I’ve decided I’ll start showing a few and the first is as I’ve stated, Finding Nemo. I’ll be covering this for a few days, because I think that there are so many different lessons in it. The one I’ll be covering today though is when Dory and Marlin swim through Jellyfish Fields.

Marlin and Dory were making their way to the current to find Nemo. The fish had smartly guided them to the trench. They were told to swim through the trench and to go no other way, but when Marlin and Dory got to the trench they thought, “Man…this looks like a tough swim, how about we go over instead, it looks easier?” So when they get to the top, they see an open area and can see the current ahead of them at a distance. As Marlin is gazing in awe at the current, Dory meets Squishy her new little jellyfish friend who stings her. Dory panics as Marlin tries to calm her down. Marlin states the obvious, “At least it wasn’t a big one.” At that moment (coincidentally) large groups of jellyfish surround them without Marlin realizing. As he looks up he realizes what’s around them and is telling Dory to stay clear of the tentacles as she starts bouncing around. They race to the current, but Dory gets stung along the way.

Do you realize where I’m getting at? The path that they were advised to take they thought looked to tough and they wanted to take which they thought was the easier way, which was above the trench. When they got there they thought it would be extremely easy and started on their way, when jellyfish swarmed them. Dory ended up getting stung and that was her consequence for trying to take the easy way out. This is how we are. We see the way that God wants us to take, but we want to take the way or path that we think is easier. We always have to end up paying the consequences for doing this, then we realize why we should have taken the path advised. Anytime you’re stuck and you want to take the easy way out, or you’re trying to get somewhere in life and you want to take a few shortcuts, don’t cut through Jellyfish Fields, take the path you think God wants you to take.

Over and Out.

Angela