And the Academy Award Goes To....
“Be not judging anything before the season, till the Lord should be coming, who will also illuminate the hidden things of darkness and manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then applause will be coming to each one from God” (I Corinthians 4:5)
In 1991 Anthony Hopkins won the academy award for outstanding actor in a leading role for the film “Silence of the Lambs”. He played the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a psychopathic murderer. Anthony Hopkins played the part just as the script was written and performed so well he received the highest award of the motion picture academy.
God created the universe and all that is in it according to the Bible.
“I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things…I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host…by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.” (Isaiah 45:7, 12; Colossians 1:16)
He has a purpose for the ages and all those in them. He oversees the role of all of the creatures in those ages if we believe He is the Sovereign God described in the Bible. In other words, God wrote the script for the drama of life as we know it. So if you do not like the role you are playing, well, take it up with God, He wrote the script for the part and cast you into your role.
Paul was given insight into the mystery of the ages and says he was to…
“…bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things.” (Ephesians 3:10)
And Paul had told the Ephesians in Chapter 1 that God has a purpose for all things and that all things work according to His wil, and that all have redemption in Christ…
“In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will…” (Ephesians 1:7-11)
We certainly do not have to like the evil villains as they play their roles in the drama of life. And our role may be to destroy them in this age...but sometimes I wonder if in the end, after the grand drama is played out and the curtain falls,.“then applause will be coming to each one from God”, the heroes and the villains...for God wrote the script and cast all into their particular roles...and of course Christ Jesus came to save the whole world, not just the good guys in it.
In 1991 Anthony Hopkins won the academy award for outstanding actor in a leading role for the film “Silence of the Lambs”. He played the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a psychopathic murderer. Anthony Hopkins played the part just as the script was written and performed so well he received the highest award of the motion picture academy.
God created the universe and all that is in it according to the Bible.
“I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things…I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host…by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.” (Isaiah 45:7, 12; Colossians 1:16)
He has a purpose for the ages and all those in them. He oversees the role of all of the creatures in those ages if we believe He is the Sovereign God described in the Bible. In other words, God wrote the script for the drama of life as we know it. So if you do not like the role you are playing, well, take it up with God, He wrote the script for the part and cast you into your role.
Paul was given insight into the mystery of the ages and says he was to…
“…bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things.” (Ephesians 3:10)
And Paul had told the Ephesians in Chapter 1 that God has a purpose for all things and that all things work according to His wil, and that all have redemption in Christ…
“In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will…” (Ephesians 1:7-11)
We certainly do not have to like the evil villains as they play their roles in the drama of life. And our role may be to destroy them in this age...but sometimes I wonder if in the end, after the grand drama is played out and the curtain falls,.“then applause will be coming to each one from God”, the heroes and the villains...for God wrote the script and cast all into their particular roles...and of course Christ Jesus came to save the whole world, not just the good guys in it.