Smallville

Yes I'm a little embarrassed to say but I was watching Smallville the other day on the telly. I actually enjoy watching it. For those of you who may not know, it's the story of Superman when he was growing up as a farmboy teenager in Smallville, Kansas.
Just to give you a little background, Clark Kent is an alien that was sent to earth by his birth parents when their planet was going to be destroyed. He gets found and adopted by a couple that can't have kids and grows up in Kansas. All throught his childhood he and his parents discover that Clark has special abilities. He goes through high school trying to discover who he is and fit in with the crowd but his abilities and his background suggest that he is not like everyone else even though he tries hard to live the normal life (I'm going some where with this so be patient).
In this particular episode that I was watching a girl from Clark's home planet of Krypton shows up at his door one day and tells him that it's time to come home. It's time to reclaim your birthright and be the person you truly were meant to be.
Of course by this time Clark has gotten so used to earth and has grown to love it and all that it has to offer. The girl argues that this is not his real home and that he has so much waiting for him and such a better life in which he will become more powerful than he could imagine. She says she can't understand why he would want to stay here with these people when all they will do is hurt him and misuse him and fail him. For Clark their is a dilemma because on the one hand, going to be with his own people and be who he was meant to be without having to hide it all the time would be ideal. But he is pulled by earth and all the loves of this world because this is all he's known and it's hard to just give it all up because he would be missing something.
Maybe by now you see where I'm going with this but I'll just continue. I think that our struggle as Christians living in this world is the weight and the pull of all the loves this world has to offer. It's so easy and comfortable to just live for this world and all it has to offer because that's really all we've ever known. But God sent his messenger down to earth to walk amongst us and tell us of a better life. The life we were meant for. I would say that that is my biggest struggle. On the one hand I've got eternity with riches, an inheritance, and a chance to go home and be with who I was meant to be with. My real people.
But on the other hand, this world is all I've ever known. I've grown to love it's comforts and even though this world and all it has to offer will probably fail me at one time and/or ultimately, because it's all I've known there is this pull because I might miss something even though deep down inside I know that's not true.

24Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. Matthew 16:24