As they are getting set to leave Eadu on the stolen Imperial cargo ship, Jyn confronts Cassian about how he lied to her about the mission.
Jyn angrily shouts, “You might as well have[pulled the trigger on his assassin’s rifle]. My father was living proof and you put him at risk. Those were Alliance bombs that killed him.”
Cassian passionately replies, “What do you know? We don’t all have the luxury of deciding when and where we want to care about something. Suddenly the Rebellion is real for you? Some of us live it. I’ve been in this fight since I was six years old. You’re not the only one who lost everything. Some of us just decided to do something about it.”
Cassian had been a part of the Rebellion since he was six.
In the time since he lost a lot and it colored his vision and understanding of what they were fighting for.
Believers that accepted Jesus at a young age can also forget what becoming a Christian means.
Often, the longer a person is a Christian, the more like a Pharisee they become, claiming we need to do or not do certain things. They become like the Judaizers, who insisted that converts to Christianity needed to become circumcised (Acts 15). Paul fought against this in Philippians 3:2, “Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.”
We need to remember our first love and why we came to Jesus.
What is required for salvation?
Our faith is not a works-based, but one of grace (Ephesians 2:8-9) as believers do not “HAVE” to do anything.
We should try to live a life that is pleasing to God, but we should do it not to gain His love or favor (we cannot) but because we are His children and want to make Him smile.
Can we remember the freedom we felt when we first met Jesus and surrendered our lives to Him?
If we cannot, we should check our theology.
