The LOST finale was satisfying in a fallen world sort of way. It was a good ending to a great series, but it left me feeling there was something missing. There was. I think people are looking for what is significant, what gives their lives meaning, what helps them to see things correctly. What is frustrating is that they are stumbling around in the dark—on purpose! God has told us what is significant and what gives our lives meaning. He has given us all that we need to know and cared for us perfectly, but we choose to ignore what He says and to live our own ways.

It wasn’t a “Christian” ending, whatever that might mean. What people typically mean by that is that it doesn’t line up with the Christian worldview. I am constantly amazed that we expect things of this world to line up perfectly. It was as close as you can get from a pagan team. It was inclusive of most religions and true of none of them. Any time you mix all the religions together into a blob, you lose the significant aspects of each. I am most offended that the distinctives of Christianity are lost, but what would I expect. It is my job, as someone who believes in the one true God, to proclaim His excellencies to everyone. (1 Peter 2:9) I want a television show to do that for me, but how stupid is that?!

As I said, I finished watching this season with a feeling that something was missing. So much was missing. What I realized this morning was that I actually like that fact. If LOST fulfilled all my desires and ended as the perfect story, I would want to live in that story. I would make it into an idol. I would create my own version of the story and mentally live there for the rest of my life. I don’t want to do that.

I live in the only perfect story. I live in the one I was created for and it really is not about me. This story is about God and His glory.

We take something created and expect it to fill us, to help us, to fulfill us. Do we really think that will work? Are we that foolish? Are we that willing to turn away from what God says? In most cases, yes.

I have other thoughts and hope to post them soon. But the reality is that as Christians, we should not look to LOST for the answers. God has already given them.

Tags: Idolatry, Lost, myth, story