Have you ever enjoyed an evening at the theater seeing a good stage play? The main components of a good stage play are an interesting story line and wonderful acting. If it is successful, the audience is appreciative and leaves with a sense of enjoyment, and is amazed at how well the actors performed.
Life itself is pretty much a stage play. We are each the main character in life's presentation. But there are some significant differences between life and the stage play we view in a theater. Our stage is the world around us, and our audience is all of those we come in contact with. And while our play has a story line, each persons is different from all of the others. And in our play a major difference is that we are either real, or we are "acting". Another huge difference is that we are on stage for a very different result. Our play has only one curtain call....we are on the stage until we die.
At points throughout my life I was acting. Acting as if I was someone I wasn't. Acting in such a manner so that others might see me in a different light from what I really was. We have all done a bit of acting have we not? Sometimes we forget that our biggest "critic" (God) sees through that and will nudge us to just follow our lines. He just wants us to be ourselves and continue to grow as Christians, be real, and continue to learn to follow Christ, so that when the end of the third act comes we can be with Him forever.
He doesn't want us to act like Christians...He wants us to be Christians.
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