The storyline for one of the characters, Lord Garmadon, is that he was bitten by a fierce serpent, The Great Devourer, and that evil now runs through his veins as a result of the snake bite. Even if the evil Garmadon wanted to be good, he couldn't, because of the Devourer.
This morning on the way to school a conversation came about where the older boys could not understand why a family member was a certain way. They couldn't wrap their sweet, innocent little heads around the sad fact that sometimes family treats you worse than others. The only way I could explain it was just that "he had evil in his heart."
Conner is all his five-year-old wisdom said, "Like the Great Devourer bit him." I immediately caught the Ninjago reference and started to say no that it wasn't quite like that, but thought for a minute that it was EXACTLY like that. A wise & cunning serpent, a devourer, has breathed his evil into him.
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8
Just an encouragement this morning to stay the course, fight the fight, finish the race, lest you get devoured . . .
Children sometimes have the best and simplest ways to explain things!
