Oz the Great and Powerful

On Saturday I went with my family to see "Oz the Great and Powerful" (for freeeeee ;). One totally random line I loved was when Oz said, "Thomas Edison was a real wizard. He looked into the future and made it happen." I think that's just a really cool thought.
What I really loved about the movie, though, was when Oz said to Glinda, "I'm not the wizard you expected, but I might be the wizard you need." The people of Oz wanted someone big, powerful, amazing, someone who could grant wishes and do magic! Oz wasn't any of that when he put aside his pretenses. He was a common Kansas man with no desire to have goodness in his heart. He had no magical powers. All he had was his ingenuity, knowledge, and something sneaky up his sleeve (red powder, to be exact). He didn't use anything special to fix a china doll's broken leg- only glue. But it was what she needed. He didn't have any magic at all, and certainly not enough to beat the Wicked Witches. But his carefully crafted machines, the likes of which they had never seen, were exactly what was needed to win the battle.

Jesus wasn't the king anyone expected. Even His closest disciples wanted Him to use military strength to take up an earthly throne and defeat the Romans. Jesus had something better in store. They thought they needed a king to rule their land. What they really needed was a King to save their souls from hell. They were disappointed when He didn't try to take over Jerusalem, but in the end they knew. He'd been right all along when He said, "I'm not the king you expected, but I am the King you need."