The Battle before the Battle (uh...really?) Pt.1

We step back into Po's adventure right where we left off: Po looks up from his rocket propelled chair only to find out that he has been chosen to become the Dragon Warrior.


 Po is amazing and excited by the fame that he steps into, but doesn't realize the implications of this massive calling.

After Po is paraded through the show grounds, he is brought to the training grounds and thrust into intensive training. By training i really mean something in-between comic relief and torture. Po is subjected to extremely dangerous exercises without the skill or experience to handle any one of them. 


Then to top it all off, he confidence is blasted by over heard conversations and direct confrontations with one message:


You don't belong here.

Don't we all go through times like this? 
Times when we have just stepped into something so unbearably exciting, and then the world does everything it can to steal our excitement, and the enemy does everything he can to lets us know we're in the wrong place. 


Peter writes: "Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you."


Peter precedes this remark, telling us that trials are for the testing of our faith. 


Just as Po's faith is being tested, 
so is ours.

Unfortunately, just as many of us have experienced, Po's enthusiasm is significantly diminished by the end of the first day.


I've experience this more than once.


I've heard that haunting voice saying:
 "you don't belong here"
"you can't handle this"


And i have believed those words too many times.


The battle for our future is raging as i write. It is more serious than any war that humans have fought, and it is more constant than anything else in this world.


Are you prepared for the battle?