Please note, Black Panther is rated PG-13. Aside from Wakanda, Okoye has another great love in her life: her husband W'Kabi. Both Okoye and W'Kabi serve as military leaders of Wakanda, and both have a fierce loyalty to their country. When Killmonger becomes king, W'Kabi begins to choose Killmonger and his reign over that shared love for Wakanda. When T'Challa returns, Okoye realizes that by Wakandan Law, the challenge for the throne between T'Challa and Killmonger must continue. She points this out to W'Kabi, in hopes that his love and loyalty to Wakanda will outweigh his growing admiration for Killmonger. Unfortunately it does not, and thus a battle ensues between Okoye's Dora Milaje and W'Kabi's Border Tribe. This also puts Okoye and W'Kabi against each other, with Okoye defeating W'Kabi in the end. This is not before she makes it extremely clear to him that her loyalty will first and foremost always be to Wakanda. Okoye has to make a choice: her family or something greater. It is the same choice we sometimes have to make as well. In Jesus' commissioning of the Disciples in Matthew, He tells them to put God before all others. He continues by saying: "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household." Sadly, sometimes our faith will put us in conflict with our loved ones, although like Okoye we hope that will not be the case, and like Okoye we do everything in our power to help our loved ones serve God with us. But sometimes those we love may force us to choose between them and loving God. Okoye made the right decision in fighting for what is right, even when it puts her into conflict with her husband. Would that we might have the same courage as her. Disclaimer: unless otherwise stated, the majority of images produced here are not owned or created by me. Commenting is encouraged. Please use discretion leaving comments below, letting the love of God guide you.
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