Soul Surfer Movie; A Reflection

This week, my days were fulled by watching inspirational movies lol. Not without a reason, I think my faith is not always on fire. I know this not good, but I try to be honest here.
Reading Bible then just became my routinity, and I wish by watching movies, which most of them are based on true story, I hope that my faith will re-fire again and again.

This time I would like to tell you what I glean from Soul Surfer Movie. It's based on true story of Bethany Hamilton, who was an expert-surfer-teenager that was beaten by Shark while she was surfing and made her had to lose her one arm.

and here we go 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

1. He becomes COMPLETELY GREATER in OUR WEAKNESS

We all know exactly that in surfing sport, hands become the most crucial matter that all of the surfer should have. Can you imagine how to be a great surfer with one arm? That must be totally tough, huh?

But again, NOTHING is REALLY (IM)-POSSIBLE WITH GOD. Bethany herself has proven it.

You can watch first her video here

 

I take the concern on her words that when she asked God how to praise Him with surfing, God instead took one of her arm away.  

Of course as a human being, she was upset at first. People mock her, even she was afraid that no man ever loved her. But what make me so amazed that she does not give up, and who knows that in that accident God has prepared the most beautiful plan for her.

In her weakness, God becomes COMPLETELY GREAT. 

He must become GREATER; I must become LESS

(John 3:30)

You can read below all of her achievements that I got from wikipedia. 

Not only that, God use whole of her life to bless others through her struggling and her story. She can strengthen others who are in low & the same condition with her.

As she allow God to use her more, God has to take her one arm. She becomes God's hand to remind HIS children out there again and again through her story, that there is nothing we should be worried. In any condition, God still can use us.

And listen, there is none like you out there, God make each of us to one purpose that can only be fulfilled by yourself.

And yet in all of our DISABILITIES and INABILITY, GOD's POWER is PERFECTLY REVEALED ---- and It aims to show HOW MIGHTY our GOD is.

2. NOTHING we have LOST that GOD CANNOT REPLACE

I don't have any idea if  I were her. Just like her, I must be afraid that no man love a disable girl, I would not be a surfer again, or even what I could be with only one arm.

But as God does not want to owe a person; He will not take something from us if He cannot replace it (and of course we have nothing here, that all belongs to Him). God does not take her profession nor her "soul surfer";

She still becomes the most professional surfer with ONLY ONE ARM and GOD even BLESS her MORE and MORE; make her as A MOTIVATOR and gives her LOVE and HANDSOME CHILDREN.

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Through her story reminds me again, that we have to "empty" ourselves; our ego, our need to be honored, even our freedom so that God can work perfectly in us and His works bear the fruits through us. But then it remind me again that our God is so powerful, yes HE IS! and we will never get shame nor lack anything in His ways because when God takes something from us, God will replace multiply beyond we can imagine. 

Amen.