THE UNBELIEVING SUICIDE SQUAD: HARLEY QUINN

She’s so popular now, Warner Brothers just green lit a spinoff that might incorporate the Birds of Prey storyline. And why not? Harley Quinn is a very relatable character, everyone knows how it feels to break bad, to become the very demon you sought to exorcise. Becoming a believer, becoming a Christian places you in the position to become the most unsettling of paradoxes-for the people that are most likely to be vicious wolves, are those for whom sainthood has been purchased, or in this instance, sheep clothing.


Harley Quinn was a psychiatrist hired to diagnose and maybe cure the Joker, but she became so allured by him, because psycho is just too infectious. Likewise we, the believers, are placed smack dab in the middle of a dark world, told to be in it and not of it. But sometimes, we become so enamored by what we were asked to overcome. Even in the Old Testament God warned the Israelites not to venture into a nation because its people still lived and He feared that they would corrupt the Israelites, swing them over to their side and their gods. And you find yourself wondering if God is so sweet then why would He not have confidence that his people would stick with him despite exposure to other options like the bee sticks to honey despite the availability of  wine? It is the Harley Quinn paradox, to be saved, rendered a savior by the great commission and then have yourself fall as the world falls. For sin to still reign in your mortal bodies despite the fact that you are dead to it. And this time (new testament), God isn’t asking us to stay out, He’s asking us to go out into all of the earth, even telling us that He sends us out “as sheep amongst wolves”

Something’s different is why. You see in the Old Testament there was no indwelling of the spirit. Yet the unbelievers had and still have one, the spirit of the antichrist. It wasn’t going to be possible for the people of Israel to resist a people and their spirit, for it is written that the demon goes about seeking a dry place and then finding none, returns unto the man he possessed, finds him “empty” and possesses the man again with seven of his closest demon friends. If you watch Naruto, the people of Israel were like a fighter with no chakra asked not to fight another fighter with dark chakra. But now we have all the chakra in the world by the person of The Holy Spirit, now we can immerse ourselves in the filthy waters of this carnal world, and come out squeaky clean. Because a strong man cannot take the possession of a stronger man. But yet still, the way is narrow and few they be that find it, why? Let me tell you the story of the lost hair cream.

THE STORY OF THE LOST HAIR CREAM

Yesterday I bought some hair cream. It was long overdue that I did, so I did. However, after a long day of reading and dealing with the most capricious of creatures (people!) I was prime for some deep sleep and I forgot my hair cream. However, upon realizing it, I called a young man who was in the position to help me retrieve it. My directions were simple, go to so and so, walk in from the back door, count four rows forward, look to your left, and it should be there right next to a wall socket. He said okay with an air of “easy as pie”. I cut the call, he called me back moments later to tell me, there was no such thing there. I inquired of him where he was, and lo and behold, the young man was not at so and so, in fact he was at the opposite of so and so, if life were poetry, that means he did the antithesis of what I directed. I told him just that (or something like it) and he told me he understood. But actually, the young man didn’t. I tried to call again and again to explain to him  where it was precisely but the network was no longer available (I could hear him, but he couldn’t hear me) so I sent him a text message, a written description of where to find the darn cream. And he still couldn’t find it!

This morning, I went to the precise spot I described, and there it was waiting for me. And that’s what the Harley Quinn believers are like, God called them, God wrote them a message in the bible, describing precisely where to find life, and for some reason they just can’t heed instructions. Instead they find themselves in the wrong classroom, and when they can’t find the hair cream, they give up and return to the more familiar formula of sin, pleasure, consequence and regret. This I know, for I’ve been there.

In the final analysis, I know this is the jet age, if we can’t tweet it or gram it, it’s too long and too slow for consumption, but please this is life we are talking about here, listen and follow the instructions, because yeah, Harley Quinn is hot, but you wouldn’t marry her, because you deserve better, and Christ does too.