I’ve had a similar post on my facebook notes, but thought I’d make another one here. I find these little connections between what I watch in anime and kind’ve what I know from the bible. So HERE WE GO!
-Major- Season 1
This show tugged on bits of my heart because it touches on what I’m currently learning. The first one is pride. There’s always someone out there who’s better than you at something. This gives you room to develop and grow. The next is perseverance. When trials or hardship comes, you’ve gotta press onward and fight to the finish. Trying your absolute best is all anyone can ask for, just don’t give up! The last is surrender. Sacrificing things in your life for one purpose.
Major is about a journey of a boy named Goro who loses his mom as a little child and soon loses his dad due to a wild pitch to the head by a well-known american baseball player, Gibson. Goro then goes through his life aiming to be a good enough pitcher to face off with his dad’s killer. Meeting many friends and rivals along the way, he grows from the mistakes and losses and celebrates the wins.
In comparison with other anime such as dragonball z, bleach, one piece – when they lose, they usually get severely injured or die… and they somehow come back to life somehow more stronger than they used to be. Not saying that the other anime’s are bad, I thoroughly enjoy watching and reading them, but major I find is more realistic – you lose sometimes, that’s how you grow and become better. Goro’s team doesn’t always win. There were a few major upsets throughout his baseball career, but what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. The anticipation of facing his rivals or facing good teams motivated him and his team to train and develop their skills. Meeting people who are better at certain things does not mean they are a better person than you are. Though it does open up room for you to grow in that area.
"If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all." (Mark 9:35)
Goro is simply passionate about baseball. When trials come, it’s simple, try your hardest because at the end of the day it isn’t about winning or losing, but having fun because he’s playing with many other players who share his love for baseball. When hardships come our way, we can’t quit.
“Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31)
and…
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance” (James 1:2-3).
Goro’s passion for baseball overflows to other players motivating them to play harder as a team. Goro himself cannot win a game, as baseball is a team sport. He needs the support of his teammates to win. Shouldn’t our passion for God, for Jesus, overflow somehow to point others who may be in the same boat towards God? How does this impact me? I’m still thinking about… just writing down ideas… but,
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.” (2 Corinthians 1:3-4)
Gibson went through his life playing baseball so that one day he could face Goro. He even risked his life to fulfill a lifelong promise. Because of one mistake, his whole baseball career has been about waiting for the day that Goro would come and meet him for a showdown because he feels like it’s the only way he can be redeemed for killing his father. Though a lot of what Gibson is doing doesn’t ring true in a Christian sense, it’s his act of surrender and sacrifice that kind of stuck out to me. When stood on that field pitching against Goro’s team with a (spoiler alert) heart condition that may kill him if he continues pitching, I found it pretty touching to see him try his absolute hardest even with that risk to fulfill a promise he made many years ago. If we set God as our first priority, what are the things we’re willing to give up? Is it truly everything? Would we risk our lives for God? Sometimes I find myself wondering what I would do if I was persecuted for being a Christian. A gun pointed at me, person asking if I believed in Jesus… what would I do?
“If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." (Matthew 16: 24-28)
-Major- Season 5
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