Do you have a gollum in your life?

[Mr. M]

On 3/11/2024 at 10:52 AM, The_Patriot21 said:

Thought for the day. LOTRs has always been one of my favorite stories because of how in depth the story is. Well, on a LOTRs FB group I'm in it was brought up that gandalf brought 3 eagles to mt doom in return of the king to rescue the hobbits-one of them was for gollum.

In fact throughout the series gollum has always been portrayed as a horrid creature and a villian. He killed his best friend over the ring and will do anything to keep it/get it back. He's literally evil, and in the end proves to be unredeemable. 

And Gandalf knew just how despicable he was, and even though he had multiple chances to kill him, he stays his hand, and even encourages frodo to show him mercy as well, which frodo does even going so far as to save gollums life on more then one occasion, once from his best friend sam.

And in the end gollum dies due to his own treachery, and gandalf while not knowing that, does know just how treacherous gollum is still sent an eagle to rescue him.

That's love. That's what Christ does for us, over and over, it's why He came here and died for us, even though He knew most of us would spit in his face.

And yet, as Christians when we run up against someone who has done us wrong over and over and over again, were more apt to take the attitude that samwise and most of the rest of the characters in the LOTRs took towards Gollum, and write them off as evil, instead of loving them like Jesus does. We don't know if they are unredeemable or not, only God knows that, we need to love them regardless.

I often see our Gollum as our own past trying to haunt us.

This is why throughout the scriptures we are reminded to remember.

"remember"
occurs 148 times in 144 verses in the KJV.

https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=remember&t=KJV#s=s_primary_0_1

Ephesians 2:

11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh,

who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision

in the flesh made by hands;

12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the

commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise,

having no hope, and without God in the world:

13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off

are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

And Remembrance:

"remembrance"
occurs 53 times in 52 verses in the KJV.
Page 1 / 2 exact matches (Exo 17:14–2Pe 3:1)

https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=remembrance&t=KJV#s=s_primary_0_1

2 Peter 1:

12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always

in remembrance of these things, though ye know them,

and be established in the present truth.

13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle,

to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle,

even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

15 Moreover I will endeavor that ye may be able after

my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

1 Timothy 4:6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance

of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ,

nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine,

thereunto thou hast attained.

[missmuffet]

Do you have a gollum in your life?

 

Yes