The Rise Of Skywalker ends with Rey visiting the Lars’ homestead on Tatooine. An elderly woman asks Rey, “There’s been no one for so long. Who are you?”
Rey responds as see did on Aki-Aki with, “I’m Rey.”
Like Nambi Ghima, who asked for Rey’s family name, the elderly woman asks, “Rey, who?”
Rey pauses, considers, and replies, “Rey Skywalker.”
Throughout her journey, Rey searched for a family connection. We see this as she counts the days since she was left on Jakku, waiting for her parents to return or her desire to return to Jakku after fleeing with Finn.
Eventually, she finds her family connection among her friends. She develops a strong connection to her teachers, Leia and Luke, that as she considers the old woman’s question, Rey sees the Force ghosts of Leia and Luke.
Just as Rey felt adopted into the Skywalker family, we can not only feel adopted by God, but we can actually be adopted.
Who Are We?
As the Apostle John begins his gospel account, he states in 1:12, “But to all who did receive Him [Jesus], who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God.”
In Ephesians 2:18-19, Paul tells us that “For through Him [Jesus] we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.”
No matter where we go in life, we can meet family members. These brothers and sisters might not be related to us by our blood, but we are connected through the blood of Christ.
Galatians 3:26 reveals that in Christ, we are all children of God through faith.
How will our lives differ from others since we are part of the family of God?
