An Affirmative Love of A Father Leads to Greater Motivation

I thought that IRON Man 2 does speaks not just personal versus strength of technology, but also about the affirmation of a father's love and our own relationship with our earthly fathers and our heavenly Abba.

The turning point for me in the whole movie was when Tony Start continued to see his father's movie clip for the Stark Convention and witnessed his father's admonition towards him when little Tony Stark played with the model thereby 'wasting' the film footage.

As Tony continue to watch the footage, he actually saw the funny side of his father (that's where he got his off the cuff humour from) and then his father's own personal message to his son, affirming Tony of his ability to see his father's secret work and to tell him, he built up all these for him.

Another image of father's love is when the nemesis, whiplashes' father apologises to his son and with a heavy heart bequeth whip-lash the technology he shared with senior stark.

My feel is that the real story behind the iron man, is not what we wear or show on the outside but what we has on the inside, that made us a man in the eyes of men. Not because our physical attributes but the spirit we have in us.

Hence, it is appropriate that the man in our lives, the fathers and brothers are the people who make us men, is given a fair airing in the show It is really time to show, that fathers ARE important to a child's life and a positive father figure, make ordinary men into iron men.

The other thing we should really see, is also the love our of fathers, especially the love of our Abba in heaven. As senior stark shows Tony what he has done for him, so has our father in heaven, show us the promises of heaven on earth as it is in heaven, the blessings He gave us through the sacrifice of His Son, so that He can call us His sons and His men!

Our Father in Heaven has affirmed us by loving us. Now we do not live in condemnation but under the unmerited favour of God!