The World is a stage

12 November  2012      

     

John 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

All of us live in different worlds and in each of these worlds we put on the learnt roles that we need to play in order to be comfortable in that world. As we think of this we realise that these are all learnt roles and we are the play actors on the stage. Yet in all these roles the one constant is who we really are, the more real we are in these roles the more true we are to who we are. Many people play these roles and lose themselves in the process.

There are those people who have become so practised in these roles, that when they are required to retire or do something different, they just cannot change roles. The role that they have played in life determines who they are to themselves, and at some stage in their life they allowed the role to control them.  It this that traps them from being free to who God made them to be and the role holds them bound. They also cannot describe themselves without telling you the what the do and the role they play in life. We need to change the stage we are on and move from the stage of the world to that of Jesus Christ, where who we are is bound in who Jesus Christ is.

Be encouraged today to be true to yourself.

 

David

Point to ponder: Stop play acting

Question to consider: Who is your stage master