Re-post from Facebook Notes 1 (Slumdog Millionare)

I thought I would pass this post along from my Facebook from a couple of years ago. Since this fits in with this blog I thought I would put it in a more respectable place. Enjoy and comment! Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 12:38am hi it's late, i'm tired, mostly, but i just got done watching Slumdog Millionare and couldn't sleep besides thinking about some deep things. i'll revise this tomorrow or whenever... it's a story about a young man from India that comes from the slums, eventually gets on Who Wants to be a Millionare? and wins the jackpot...miracurously all of the questions are easy because the answers have been given to him in his quest to find another orphan girl named Latika. anyway, it was hard to see the movie because he had gone thru so much pain and sacrifice just to be with her again...it was an odd love story. but the movie got me thinking about the realities, specifically, of India. my sis has been to India and worked as a missionary there. i think i saw, thru the movie, what she saw. it was hard to see, and i'm sure she can relate. just like a lot of places, especially the US, God is lost. he's replaced by other gods. and He's all we really need. we look for all the traits that he has in other things, even if we have to make up fake gods to worship. but it's all right there. so, watching the movie, one part of me agrees (with my mom that said it outloud) that that's no place that i'd want to be. why? because it's so horrible for living. but the other part, the part of me that has given over my life so that i don't have control, wants to be there because serving the least of these is like serving Jesus. and we're called to exactly that. so instead of looking for countries that sound nice to live in, or creating a bucket list of places to visit, don't plan where you'll go because that plan will always be replaced by God's plan. live your life the best you know how, and God will show you where he has called you. now, i think my calling is on the countries of Germany and Russia, because i love learning their languages, and especially about how lost God is in those countries. everyone can relate to God because they are all searching for him in their own way. and besides, people that think they have it all figured out, which is not the majority of the pop of Russia, would be more open to the Gospel. it was like a horror story listening to one break-out chapel at NWC about Russia...just the facts. they are dead...they are losing their population, trust, hope, everything. it's cold, no electricity, idk about water, the gov't runs most everything. i bet it's illegal to be a Christian. now Germany. i've had a sem of the language/culture, in highschool. i loved it. i mean the movies were from the 80s-90s so they had German rap! rock on. anyway, it sounds like a nice place. but i'm sure it's like everywhere else, and i bet it looks a lot like America. i think i could reach the teenagers... they don't like their parents, they find God in whatever gets them feeling good, the earth is all we've got so lets drink our pains away and our fill of love... yea. but God is alive and eager for anyone any age to come back to him...just like the 99 sheep that are good little sheep and one that runs off cuz it sees something shiny over in the desert...which btw is all of our testimonies. the Gospel is simply this: we are witnesses to the Good News. it doesn't matter if we win someone over, or if we should even worry about how it comes out and how we think we could win a debate. does a witness practice in a mirror? notecards?? no. God is great, just because he is, and the fact that he DIED just so he could keep this wretched people that turned away from him just like all the rest that died in the flood.....isn't getting around. why not? "if we are the body, why aren't his hands healing...?" because we are focused on the problem and not Him to take us out of the well that we fell in. He didn't have to do it, and it doesn't make sense, but i guess that's love.