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Title may look paradoxical and confusing. Well, “Nacho” is the movie I watched last weekend. It is a comedy and it is about a Priest Ignatio who is living in a monastery. His childhood ambition was being a wrestler. But due to his vows he couldn’t do that but still he has great desire for wrestling. Now that monastery has an orphanage. Father Ignatio is the chief chef for the whole monastery, but due to the lack of proper fund he could only provide frugal meal to the children.

One day it so happens that because of overwhelming passion for Wrestling, he selects a partner in the road side and participates in a tag team match. Though he looses, he got some money by which he provides the children decent food. He continues to wrestle without the knowledge of the superiors in the monastery. He continuously earns and also looses the matches.

One day in frustration he prays like this: “ Precious Father, why have you given me this desire to wrestle and then made me a stinking warrior. Have I focused too much on my boots, and on my fame and my stretchy pants?” Then something clicks in his mind and he utters the following words which struck me hard: “May be you want me to fight and give everything I win to the little ones who have nothing so that they can have better food and better life. Okay, If I win tonight’s wrestling match, I would know that you will bless my mission and you want me to be a wrestling servant of you”. Of course after that though he seems to loose, he wins the title at last and uses all the money he gets for the educational tour of the orphans.

More than stomach-paining humour in the story, the moral of that prayer touched me. He wanted to re-dedicate the desire he had for wrestling to God so that God would be glorified through his ambitions. Of course he fought before and used the money for Orphans, then what difference this pray made in his life? I think it is the attitude. Before he fought to fulfil his desire to fight. Now he had a purpose for wrestling, a noble purpose which kept him strong in his mission. You may dismiss this as insignificant, but I feel as he dedicated himself to be the ‘Wrestling-Servant of God’ we also need to dedicate ourselves as ‘cooking servant of God’, ‘writing servant of God’ or ‘Reading servant of God’.

This brings me to the research I am doing on Puritans for my BD thesis. J.I. Packer in his book “Among God’s Giants” says that Puritans’ lives were integrated. They did not have the dichotomy of separating sacred and secular. They viewed life as a whole which ought to be used for the Glory of God. We also need to learn this thing in our lives. Are we submitting all our legitimate desires in God’s hands so that he would open ways for us to use it for His glory? 

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