The other day I watched the movie “Forever Strong”. I’ve seen it a few times and every time I watch it, it gives me a new love for rugby. While the movie is about a troubled boy who plays rugby for a team because he is in a juvenile detention center, there are two other underlying stories that we can take away from the film. This film is based on a true rugby team today and the philosophies that they live by.
The first underlying story is about the coach who coaches the Highland Rugby Team. His name… Larry Gelwix. He was a father to the young men on the team. He has Biblical values and morals that he implements in each of his players.
The second underlying story is even more subtle. That story line is what is your war cry? If you know anything about rugby, then you know that the New Zealand team does a thing called the Haka. The Haka is the literally a war cry. This war cry is used in functions such as the Kiwis. However, the Highland team have adopted the Haka or war cry and the saying, kia kaha, which is translated “Stray Strong” as their team motto.
There is a moment in the movie when the young man is in jail, and he constantly is chanting the haka. His training had him shouting his war. Now I know his war cry wasn’t scripture. But what if it had been scripture? Would he have been able to walk right and not even been in the presents of the corrupted friends?
Now, let’s put that into our spiritual man? Do we memorize the scripture intently? In Joshua 1:8, it talks about the book of the Law being meditated on. Meditated in the Vine’s Expository Dictionary in the Greek means to “practice, ponder”. When we cross reference the verse with a verse from one of the Law books given to Israel it means to “keep and follow the words of this covenant”.
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Joshua 1:8 (NKJV)
“If we don’t then we will be in danger of not knowing who we are in Christ. But also, in danger of not knowing how we can rely on Christ.”
Our war cry needs to be God’s Word. The Scripture needs to be our war cry, and we must be able to recall it like the young man did for his war cry. If we don’t then we will be in danger of not knowing who we are in Christ. But also, in danger of not knowing how we can rely on Christ. I hope you learn your war cry.
Have a nice day… See you soon
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