2009
We are At Center Stage; Are You Ready? by Rev. Sanda Scott Wright
My husband referees basketball so I asked him what did it mean to be at center stage. He is a man of few but precise words and his simple reply was, “It means all eyes are on you.” I never thought of it like that, but it was quite apropos for that is what is where every believer is right now.
We as Christians are no longer allowed being on the sidelines. We have been threshed forth by the Holy Spirit onto Center Stage. Have you found yourself the object of persecution, unfair requirements, and feeling like you’ve been taken advantage of? Feeling overworked, underpaid, underappreciated, taken for granted, asked to do 24hours worth of work in 8 hours? The list goes on. Have I captured your situation yet? The bottom-line you; we have been placed right on Center Stage on the firing line. We are being picked out to be picked on. We have been lied on to see if we can be relied on!
It’s proving time. We say we love God. We say we have forsaken all to follow Christ…but have we really? Being reviled we are to revile not. Being despised we are to despise not. We are counted as sheep before the slaughter. The servant is not greater than the Master.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. …I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. John 13:16,18
