Titanium

"I'm bulletproof nothing to lose...You shoot me down but I won't fall, I am titanium."

I recently listened to "Titanium." a hit song. Finally. It has been out for several years. It is still big!  It moved me. I liked it! 

There is a desire within us to be solid. Invincible. Like Titanium. There are so many corrosive influences all around. They shoot at us. They hurt. They can destroy. They come in a variety of penetrating ways. It might come from a bully or brother. It might be the abuse of a loved one or a literal bullet from a hate-filled crazed off-balance lune. So we want to be strong don't we! We want to reflect the arrows. We want to put hurtful lies in their place. We want to stand strong and last. Forever. Super invincible. Too powerful to be defeated. Too strong to be overcome. 

But how? 

I have been looking closely at the words of Peter. His name means Titanium. Well. Actually it means "rock." Pretty much the same thing in their minds back then. When the bullets started flying Peter was anything but. He caved. In the face of opposition he denied even knowing Jesus the night before the crucifixion. After a love-filled conversation with Jesus several days later - the resurrected Jesus - Peter became Titanium. He stood before Jerusalem. Thousands. And was so convincing that thousands at ground zero, where the resurrection took place, made Jesus their rock. 

Here is what Peter wrote. "Love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for

“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls." (1 Peter 1:22–24)

There is a powerful seed that causes a kind of rebirth. The seed is imperishable! Titanium-like!  So the rebirth it produces turns a person into someone who is imperishable. Invincible. Titanium. This seed of God changes a person from withering to overcomer. Peter went on to write, "The grass withers,
and the flower falls,
but the word of the Lord remains forever.
And this word is the good news that was preached to you." (1 Peter 1:24–25)

The good new! Earlier in this chapter Peter tells what this powerful, imperishable, seed is that turned him and can turn us into titanium. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."  (1 Peter 1:3–5)

The invincible Jesus is the key to our new titanium life. Let's look to Him.