Not Today

 Rate: 4 out of 5 stars

I watched a movie again, entitled Not Today. It is a movie exposing the rampant child slavery in India. It was heart-breaking, and very moving. They did a great job persuading the audience on taking an action. I know that God is behind this movie!

Some of the notes I wrote while watching the film:

• Anikka (daughter): The sky appears big sometimes, and sometimes small.
  Kiran (dad): The sky does not change but our view changes.
  –  I like to compare this conversation on how we view God’s greatness. Sometimes, we think that God is so big, because He moves on big things–problems that are impossible to solve, miracles, etc. And sometimes, He appears small to us. When we have big problems and think that God cannot do anything about it because nothing seems to be happening no matter how we pray.
  But like that father said to his daughter, God does not change, but our view of Him changes. God is God, He is Who He is. It is us who limits Him, when He is limitless. It is us who tries to fathom His character, even though He is fathomless.
• Just because He didn’t answer things your way means He didn’t answer?
     –  Sometimes, we don’t see God’s answers to our prayers. There are also times when we have to wait a very long time to see it. And most of the time, we just have to change our view to see His answers. Either way, He answers all our prayers.And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.  (1 John 5:14-15)
• Sometimes we have to be broken to be useful.
  
• It seems easy to see that the hand of God was guiding because now I’m aware. I have no more excuses, and the very best thing I can do is get involved.

All in all, this soundtrack at the end of the movie sums up all that I felt and learned while watching the movie:

What Love Can Do by Kari Jobe (Lyrics)

I could sit here and pretend I didn’t know
I could move on and you’d just assume I had to go
But now that I have met you
I gotta take the chance
I could turn and walk away

But I’ve seen what love can do
When you set it free
Pick up the pieces and make it new
Break through the walls between us
And I know if let go of this
Fear that held us here and make a move
We’ll see what love can do

I could hide away inside this American Dream
And tell myself it’s someone else’s destiny
But now that I have held you
I’ve gotta the chance
I could turn  and walk away
I’m tired of saying no to the truth
That I can be the change and the proof
That love is alive and grace is still amazing

Season of Miracles

A rate of 3 and a half out of five for this movie. It’s a Christian movie that magnifies Isaiah 55:8,

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.

I learned from this movie that weird things that happen to our lives are not accidents. They are connected, weaved together, by God just like a tapestry. It also teaches us that any people can be used by God, even a person who has an autism.

It has been a question to me whether persons with mental disabilities can be saved, and I got some real answers from pastors, but this movie made it clear to me that really, they can be saved. Everyone can be saved. Indeed, He is able!

YMI Blogging

I blog not to impress, but to express.

You probably have seen that tagline on several blogs today, and I would have said the same thing in answer to the title of this article. But that’s cliché, and does not fit the motives on why  this blog is created.

I am blogging not to impress, not to express, but to bring glory to the God I serve. I am not good in writing, but I believe that when I am writing for His glory, He gives me what I need–ideas, topics, anything–to write a good article that would benefit His kingdom. It might be meaningless to other people, but I know that this thing that I’m doing does not count as a vanity to God. This is an eternal thing.

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:31

This blog is bounded by the “1Cor10:31 Rule”. Everything written here glorifies Him. Why? Because it’s all about Him, not you and me, it’s Him.