Captain America: The Winter Soldier


        In Captain America: The Winter Soldier Hydra has shown Steve and his loyal squad that they have infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. Before doing so, they use a secret weapon, in the form of a super soldier with a metal arm, in multiple attempts to assassinate Nick Fury. In their attempt to take down Hydra once and for all, Captain America gets in a fight with this metal-armed super soldier and discovers something he never saw coming. In the middle of this fight, he discovers that he is in fact fighting his childhood best friend, Bucky Barnes. Hydra has brainwashed Bucky to where he would focus only on the mission, they had given him until he accomplished it. In the final fight scene, Steve tries to coax his best friend he has always known out of the brainwashed super soldier. He becomes so desperate that he decides not to continue fighting him even though Bucky’s mission was to kill Steve. Bucky continues to beat him to a pulp but, in the end, he decided not to kill him and even pulls Steve out of the water.




Steve portrayed the humble attitude of Jesus on the day of his crucifixion. In Luke 23 Jesus cried to the Father saying “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” The Roman soldiers only knew Jesus as a threat to Roman Empire, so they had no problem seeing Jesus as a criminal who needed to be crucified. Their mission was to carry out the death sentence upon Jesus. Matthew 27 tells of a Roman centurion who, upon witnessing what had occurred immediately following Jesus’ death, came to realize that Jesus truly was “the Son of God.”


Steve saw that Bucky was brainwashed and did not know what he was doing. He knew that if Bucky were truly in control of his actions that they would not be fighting in the first place. Bucky was just as much the victim as Steve was in his brainwashed state. Like Jesus, Steve recognized that Bucky wasn’t truly in charge of his actions. Bucky responded to Steve’s mercy, having been reminded of who his best friend was, by, himself, coming back to his true self and saving his best friend in the end. Imagine what would have become of Bucky if Steve had not decided to have mercy on him. Like the Roman centurion who heard Jesus’ cry for mercy, Bucky saw the mercy and love that Steve had shown him and responded with mercy. They both became open to an attitude of forgiveness to the one they had hurt.


How have you shown mercy to others lately? How can you show mercy to those who have hurt you? Will you forgive those who have hurt you although they lack mercy and regret? How can you start showing mercy to those whom you have hurt? Will you ask them for forgiveness? Will you forgive yourself? Will you show yourself mercy? Can you ask God for forgiveness?


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