Being the Audience of One

There’s a whole list of things I wanna write about that has been going through my mind since the last time I wrote, but somehow this stood out the most. I was standing outside my school gate the other day after school waiting for my mum to arrive, just observing around me I see teenagers these days have swayed away from God more instead of getting closer.

Everyone is all about fame. All fighting for fame and to be known and to be praised or maybe just simply to be noticed and fitted in. Guys cursing in every sentence, doing ridiculous things desperately wanting to be noticed by girls and smoking. The girls are nothing less. Not even considering basic moral values cursing along with the guys thinking that it’s ‘cool’, wearing inappropriate outfits, and here I wanna say, for both guys and girls, that a sinner is bad, a person that causes another person to sin is worst. You are a sinner of sinner. So the way we dress is important, do not be a stumbling block to another. Anyway back to it, everyone just wants the limelight.

But guess what?? You will NEVER get it, cause there’s already the best, there’s already the coolest, and there’s already the smartest. There’s already a star in this Story, and that is God Himself.

I think most of the time we just don’t get it. Which leads to more desperate acts of human where we dig deeper our grave hole hoping to find water. And these are like I said just now, exposing theirs bodies, girls especially, cause guys have nothing but fats and our tummy to show, which some still show!! But yeah, sex after that. I even have guys in my class watching pornography during lessons on their phones!

These are our acts that we do to fulfill that inner void that is disturbingly lonely and empty cause it has been all about us and us and we can never make that happen. I was reading the Daily Bread devotional booklet on the 27th of August and it says, Christ is seen most clearly when we remain in the background. Well this is not exactly what the writer means, but I think partly he is trying to tell us that there’s already a hero in the Story! The main character is already there. Why are you trying to steal the spotlight, or rather what are you doing? Cause you can never do it! Don’t make yourself look silly, we’re called to play the back up role here, HELLO…. Moreover, you can’t even if you try. Instead of being kicked out of the Story in the end and getting nothing at all, why not contribute your 5 minutes(life) role in This everlasting Story? That in the end, AT LEAST you are honored to be even part of it.

Well I guess another way of thinking it, and which how I think it as is, we all want to give our best to the ones we love. And most of the time we just want to make the ones we love happy. In this case, I mean is all cases, by playing our small role we can help place a small tiny puzzle to place for Him that we love. And someday when the Story is revealed to everyone, He gets the glory, He gets the fame, the One we love gets the praise, we are satisfied. Not a way to look at it as if we are the one here doing the work and choosing to help Him and that He needs us, but as a honor. Cause is you think of it, The God that made the universe that we can’t even imagine how big? Made the light that travels 186, 000 miles per second? Made the sun? Made the billion of stars? Made the milkyway just with a breath needs our help? Na…. WE want to be in His Story, not He needs us.

Friday, August 29, 2008