Longings to be part of something significant

There is an article in the New York Post today titled NYC's own superheros. The article is highlighting real people who are donning costumes and taking it to the streets just like the average joes in a new movie that recently came out. This whole super hero thing is fascinating. The rise in the number of super hero movies over the last ten years is also significant. Why are these movies successful? Why was the whole hero comic book industry successful? Why would someone don a costume and take to the streets of New York to help other people? All of these things are happening because they resonate with something inside of a lot of the population. First I believe that we all sense that things are not the way we would like for them to be. There is a longing almost an ache for the world to be better than what it is.
Romans 8:19-23 tells us, “For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.”
Secondly there is a hunger for significance inside of man. Unfortunately this significance if found outside of Jesus Christ is usually a desire for significance in the eyes of man. This is usually driven by pride and really a capitulation to the desire born in the garden of eden to be like god (Genesis 3:1-6).
What's the answer? According to Romans 12:1-3 it starts with becoming a living sacrifice and not thinking of ourselves more highly than we ought to think. It is really accomplished in Christ, because it is in Christ that we are made truly alive (1 Corinthians 15:22). You see Jesus truly is a real hero. He has conquered death and hell. He will rescue any that come to Him, repent of their rebellion and take Him as their Lord. So rather than feeding a usually man centered hunger for significance, I think I will instead seek to cultivate a Jesus focused life that I hope will glorify the only truly great hero that has ever lived. My Lord Jesus.