Joining to Support Someone Else’s Battle – Finding God in Video Games

While Sonic has certainly kept himself busy over the years in his own titles, that doesn’t mean he hasn’t taken the time out of his busy schedule to support other gaming franchises as well. From joining his former rival and Nintendo mascot Mario in his Olympic Games series, popping up in fellow Sega games such as Super Monkey Ball and Sega Superstars Tennis, and showing up as a playable character in titles like Super Smash Brothers and Lego Dimensions, Sonic shows that he doesn’t always have to be the main character of the game to add value to it. Being a franchise mascot means showing up wherever you are needed in service of another character’s story.

I know there are plenty of times in my life when I find myself giving off “main character energy”, forgetting that this life isn’t just MY story… we are all called to play a supporting role in each other’s stories as well. When our dreams aren’t coming true yet or our prayers haven’t been fully answered, let’s follow the path of Joseph when he showed us that choosing to help others with their own dreams was the key to seeing his own dreams come to fruition. When we choose to allow the Lord to work through us to become the answer to someone else’s prayer, we will often find that our unselfish actions are the only way to see our own prayers finally come to pass.

And Joseph came in to them in the morning and looked at them, and saw that they were sad. So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in the custody of his lord’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?” And they said to him, “We each have had a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.” So Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me, please.” Genesis 40:6-8

And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Job 42:10

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