A Lesson from a Terrorist

By looking at the title some people may be concerned. However, I think that there are life lessons to be learned from all sorts of people. We could learn the true meaning of patience from a women in Africa who walks miles to get her water every day, or we could learn how to face challenges from a Canadian Nomad who broke family  tradition to go to college. There are literally thousands of things that we can learn from our fellow man (and yes, even a terrorist). The lesson that I learned from a terrorist actually came from a movie that I watched. This past weekend I watched Survivor.

This movie came out in 2015 and is currently on Netflix. In this movie a US Embassy worker in England Kate comes across some suspicious visa applications. She immediately does more investigation and before she knows it there is an assassin after her. While trying to stay alive Kate also is having to figure out what is going on with the Visa Applications and what those applicants plan to do once in the United States. Kate is framed for various crimes. England and the United States have ordered their law enforcement agencies to immediately kill Kate if she is seen. Kate puts together the pieces of the suspicious Visas and uncovers a terror plot. Kate is able to sneak back into the United States and stop the terror plot before it unfolds. I did skip a lot of details so the movie isn’t spoiled.

The whole world is against her and she is determined to get to her greater mission.

There is a lesson to be learned from Kate, the terror plot, and the assassin. Even though Kate knows that someone is trying to kill her she is determined to find out the true intentions of the original Visa Applicants. There is a clever assassin after Kate, and I am sure that Kate could have given up. She could have raised her white flag and let the assassin kill her. However Kate made the choice to keep going, to not give up, and to keep pushing forward. By deciding to keep going even when the world was literally hunting her, Kate was able to save millions of people.

Now you may be asking the infamous “So What?” The point is there will be times when the adversary is bearing us down. There are times in all of our lives when Satan is keeping us from our greater mission. However, if we keep pushing, keep trying and keep moving forward we will get to our greater mission( and maybe even save millions:).   Jeffrey R. Holland once said,  “Don’t you give up. Don’t you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. There is hope and happiness ahead. It will be alright in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come.”  

So my question for you is this- Will you be like Kate? Will you keep moving forward ? Will you keep going even when you feel like the whole world is against you? Because If you DO choose to keep moving forward there will be great rewards and great blessings ahead! Just like Kate discovered.

Until Next Time,

Gabrielle Kalea Pauole