UP a devo

Here is a devotional, using the movie UP as the source material.

1. There are three human characters(Carl, Russel, and Charles) in the movie and they all share something in common, what do you think that is?

2. Yes they are all male, have all been to South America, and have all been in some form of flying machine, but the main thread that ties all these characters together is their past.

3. Tell me about their pasts

a. Carl

b. Russel

c. Charles

4. How are they letting their pasts affect their lives?

a. Carl

b. Russel

c. Charles

5. Is this healthy?

6. Ok now what about you?

7. Read Lev. 19: 27-28

8. To my understanding Cutting your hair, trimming your beard, cutting yourself, or marking yourself, are all signs of mourning. Often times over the dead. In what ways is the past like the dead?

9. Read Matt 8:21-22

10. Ok comparing the past to the dead maybe you don't consider that fair read Isa. 43:18

11. Charles never let go of his past how did that turn out for him?

12. Carl and Russel both had to release their past. When did each break free? Carl specifically had a very dramatic release of his past.

13. How did this play out in their lives?

14. How would this play out in your life?

15. Carl spent a long time living in the past, though Charles spent longer. In a sense he was living dead, and lost a big chunk of his life because of that

16. Are you missing out on your life? Read John 10:9-11

17. Final thoughts?