Catching Flies & Karate/Kung Fu Confusion

To my readers,

I normally am not a huge fan of remakes. 

This is because remakes never seem to capture the uniqueness and fun of the original.  However, every so often a great remake happens.

Recently the movie “The Karate Kid” was remade.  At first I was really skeptical. How could they ever make a replace Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi? Would the crane kick still be as awesome? Would they break the original story line? Would there still be wax on and wax off? 

After finally watching it, I came to find I really enjoyed the flick.  It was a great film that was very different and unique from the original while still holding the truths the original movie taught. 

At one point in the movie, Dre starts arguing with his teacher, Mr. Han.  Dre is fed up and tired of the kung fu training that seems redundant to him.  At which point Mr. Han responds with,

“Kung fu lives in everything we do! It lives in how we put on the jacket, how we take off the jacket.  It lives in how we treat people.  Everything is Kung Fu.” Mr. Han

Paul was known to be a hard working and dedicated man.

Some people thought he literally beat his flesh in order to keep it from sinning.

What we know about Paul- he was serious about his calling. 

In a letter Paul writes to christians in the church in Colossae, he states,

“Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.”  Colossians 3:23, NLT. 

When we think about the words that Paul wrote and consider the way he lived, we can see that he put his money where his mouth is.  He backed up the words he said with the actions he took. 

To Paul, Jesus was everything and without Christ, he could do nothing.  Jesus’ death and resurrection were more than just stories to Paul.  He allowed this to invade every essence of who he was.

 

He lived everyday like this until his calling made him a martyr. 

I am convinced that if it were Paul instead of Mr. Han teaching us he would say something like this:

“Jesus Christ lives in everything we do! It lives in how sit in traffic, and how we get our hands dirty. It lives in how we love people.  Everything is Jesus.”

Learn from Paul’s life that Jesus is everything.  There is nothing greater or deeper than this.   We need to live our lives as if everything we did was showing the world about Jesus and his love. It may mean we do the meaningless work day in and day out.  It may mean we have to get our hands dirty, but it means that we act in everything as though it is what told people about Jesus. 

If we did this- our world would be radically different. 

Do the hard thing and walk the walk.  Prove to the world that everything you do will reflect Christ and his love to the world. 

Simply,

Tex G.M. Rule

“Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.”  Colossians 3:23, NLT.