Raya and the Last Dragon

Just watched the movie Raya and the Last Dragon. I don't know much about the stories that make up this movie. I hear they represent some of the folktales of South East Asia. I see a lot of the Thai, Malay and Indonesian culture play through.

It's a really nice story about dragons and their power to unite people and kingdoms.

I've said before that I wish bible stories, stories about God were told in a more realistic way, not the classic stories we know. Someone once told me that, a brown cow eats green grass and makes white milk. The personal stories of God through a life that God has touched, now spread out to the world, how he is the one behind the rain that falls to the ground, why he is loving and kind and wise and his ways are perfect. That story needs to be told.

It also needs to be clear that when we disobey his commands, and live in rebellion, sometimes bad things happen as a result. They happen as a signal to us that we have done wrong and to return and make amends with God.

Maybe I'm ranting but maybe not. God's story needs to be told.

-ONWARD!

It's not about me

I was washing my mom's car ahead of church tomorrow and thinking through somethings. I was not happy with where my relationship with God was. I felt like most of what I ask for never go answered. Although I must admit that many things I didn't ask for, I got. Yet it was frustrating.

I don't quite know who talks back when I'm thinking through things in my mind, whether it's my mind or the Holy Spirit but I heard someone say, what about what God wants? And I froze at that question.

I had forgotten about God. I had formed a habit of just asking, asking and not caring about him. After all it's a relationship, between me and God. Come to think of it, I should serve his need not him serving mine. God is so humble even though he is All Powerful and doesn't need me, really.

I was created to serve the need of God not my needs. Jesus died on the cross to purchase me from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God. He paid with his life. I belong to him, I'm his property. I should serve him. He should be the one telling me what He wants me to do. But I get angry because he didn't do the things I asked for. What a poor, blind, ignorant, entitled fool I've been.

The interesting thing is that when I serve God's needs, my needs are served in that very act. When I please him, I am fulfilled. I find my purpose in fulfilling his purpose. I find my joy in his joy, they are connected. So the focus really should be about Him, what he wants me to do, how he wants me to live, not what I want.

I thank the Holy Spirit, it can't be my own spirit speaking like this. I thank Him for always speaking truth to me when I need it the most. And I hope now to focus more on the needs of God more than mine, and if possible, find my joy only in His joy.

-ONWARD!