While there are many unanswered questions left behind at the conclusion of the KPop Demon Hunters movie, one of the most significant is wondering what sparked the change in Rumi’s outlook and demeanor between her seemingly hopeless encounter with Celine and her defiant stand against Gwi-Ma? While the filmmakers left this open to our imagination, they dropped some clues in the lyrics to her “fight song” in her return to the battlefield. When she sang the words, “So we were cowards, so we were liars, so we’re not heroes, we’re still survivors”, it is clear that she didn’t simply reconcile her problematic past with her future… she remembered that the mission to save the world was still up to her to complete.

It is a tactic of the enemy to get us to disqualify ourselves from service after we get it wrong, but from the Biblical stories of Jonah’s disobedient run to Nineveh to Peter’s betrayal of Christ the Lord makes one thing clear… He doesn’t have to recommission us after we fall because He never decommissioned us. Both Jonah and Peter were reminded that despite their failures their mission was still the same… and the omniscient God who chose them also selected us knowing how we would fail Him, too.  No, we aren’t heroes, but He is. And through Him we are conquerors…so let’s rise up, pick up our swords, and finish our fight.

Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; when I fall, I will arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me. Micah 7:8

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 1 Corinthians 15:9-10

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you.” Jonah 3:1-2

So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Feed My lambs.” He said to him again a second time, “Simon, so  of Jonah, do you love Me?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Tend My sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.” John 21:15-17

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