Imagine a world as in the movie Avatar, but not biologically integrated. Instead it was fractured in its relationships from soon after its creation, and especially divorced from its creator through its own will.

Then imagine God comes into the world through an avatar to offer restitution. But not merely an avatar as in the movie. Not a human puppet, but a real human. Not an ethereal manifestation of God, but God’s son himself. Fully human, yet also fully God.

Here’s what the bible says: ‘In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.’

In the movie Avatar, the Na’vi greet each other with ‘I see you’. They dont merely mean I see you with my eyes, but the concept is borrowed from Sanskrit meaning ‘The god in me sees the god in you’ or ‘I see myself in you’. While we don’t subscribe to buddhist or hindu philosophy of divinity in all or all being part of the divine, the greeting is an apt picture of Jesus’ approach to us. He says to us: ‘I know who you are and everything about you. You are made in the image of God, and I want restore your relationship with me’. His expected response from us is also ‘I see you’, but this time ‘I know you are God, I wish to restore my relationship with you, so I place my trust in you’.

If our own world reflected the movie, the inhabitants of Pandora would knock off this avatar, and though it seems like it’s game over, in a quirky twist, this God-Man would rise from the dead, thus paying the necessary price for our rebellion against him.

God sent his only son (Jesus) to mend our relationship, so woe to the person who then continues to give God the flick. Either you put your trust in Jesus as the restorer of your relationship with God, or you continue in your fractured relationship and face God’s wrath.

See here for more on how to restore your relationship with God through Jesus.