Jacket On!!

Jacket on…Dre!
I don’t get it. I am done. They can beat me up as they want. You know why you left with only one student? Cause you don’t know kungfu!!

If you watch this new movie ‘The Karate Kid 2010”, you will realised these dialog are taken from the movie. In one of the scene, Jackie Chan was actually promised to teach Dre kungfu. So Jackie kept asking him to put up his jacket on the “wood”, throw it on the floor, wear it and kept repeating the cycle.

Till one point, Dre was pissed off with this impractical routine practise which has nothing to do with kungfu(in his point of view). He wanted to give up till the extend, of he was willing to be beaten up than to continue these nonsense practise. Little that he realised that all that he was practising are all the kungfu moves that Jackie trying to teach him. The moment Jackie revealed it to him, he was so amazed and only then was able to understand the real reason why was he doing all these nonsense and impractical things.

That can really relate very much to our walk with God isn’t it? A lot of times we felt that the things God asked us to do/things happening around us doesn’t make sense at all. Why I can’t get ideal job and stuck here in this small company? Why do I have to go through all these sufferings? Why do I have to do all these donkey work and he gets all the credit? We give up and blame God for not caring and showing us the way. But the real fact is, we fail to see the big picture of what God has planned for us. We might not know the reason behind what we are doing now and we might feel like throwing in the towel but only God knows what’s best for us. All we have to do is just to follow his simple instruction and continue to have faith till the day He reveal to us His perfect plan.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to his purpose.     Rom 8:28

Rick