Some more thoughts about Life Is Drama

Shakespeare said: "The world is a stage, the life is a drama and we are just the actors in the drama."
So it is in Blue Life Jazz and very evident that each of our lives’ is a “do-it-yourself project”, which just needs a blueprint; a guide; a Master.

Bertrand Russell, Nobel Laureate, mathematician and philosopher, put it this way: “Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” Christ-followers know there is God.

Rascal Flatts “Life is a Highway Lyrics” puts it this way:

Life's like a road that you travel on
there's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There's a world outside every darkened door
Where blues won't haunt you anymore
Where the brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore
We won't hesitate
To break down the garden gate
There's not much time left today
{Chorus:}
Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long

So Life is Drama; if you believe it…now it’s time to resolve---here are some precepts I’ve found helpful.

(1) I have everything I need. Do you believe that you have been provided everythinig you need to live as God intended? Really it’s our choice to align ourselves with God and place our hands our hearts around God’s provision.

Read 2 Peter 1:1-11. Muse about Peter’s urging us to “make every effort” to grow in godly character thereby remaining effective and productive for Christ Jesus.

(2) Biblical resolution is a narrow road. Resolution has two pathway alternatives: the less traveled road leading to the kingdom of God and the things of God; and the well populated road of the world. Actions (resolutions) define these pathways during the crisis element: Jesus’ way of discipline and obedience—or the way of the world.

Read Matthew 7:13-29. Muse about the options for living.

(3) The Narrow road is hard but rewarding. “Working out our salvation is difficult. It’s about discipling ourselves to led “God work in us to bring about life transformation and, by example, attracting others to Jesus as the result! It’s Kingdom building. This is what Brian McCormick spoke about this morning. We need to ask ourselves if we as Christ-followers and care about our role as ambassadors for Christ so much that others will see it. Do I resolve daily to reflect Christ’s climax (His death on the cross and resurrection); do others really see Christ in me?

Read Philippians 2:12-18. Muse about working out our salvation with a joy-filled heart.

Take some time and soak in Brian’s teaching from this past Sunday (October 28, 2007); if you have a copy of Blue Like Jazz, reread Chapter 3. God views the universe (and all of its creation) as drama; obviously our drama climaxes in the reality of the cross. Life does include comedic, satiric, and tragic seasons, doesn’t it? How is this resolution thing coming for you? Selah

Grace,

Bob