Silence in anticipation of what is to come next is in the hearts of mankind. We wonder in awe of what the next theatrical performance will be played out in our lives. The only difference is you are not just an actor; you are the actual character in God’s story.
Taking the family to the Wizard of Oz is a unique and enjoyable time. Seeing something live in performance allows you to feel you are actually there. Dorothy in her troubles with a mean lady wanting to take ToTo away. We are not in Kansas anymore, but swept away in a Land of Oz full of wonder and splendor.
Many of us are like Dorothy in the Land of Oz. We want to escape the trouble that ails us. As we travel in life, we come across others in this strange land. The curtains close as Dorothy’s walk down the yellow brick road and reopen to a new scene of corn crops where she meets Scarecrow.
Scarecrow hangs around because he feels he need a brain. I can identify with that at times and feel sometimes I just cannot pull my thoughts together. The two stroll to the character, Tin Man. Here is someone that is just rusty. The clues and signs were there, but chose not to do something about it. He was stuck in a rut. I can identify with him because sometimes in my life, I saw the warning signs and chose to ignore them. This put me into complacency and felt rusted out. There was no life in me, as if there was no heart to the matters that needed attention.
The curtains change and the three are now off down the yellow brick road into a jungle of a mess. How often are we in the jungle and unaware of what lurks in the shadows? Lions, Tigers and Bears, OH MY! Lion purrs with pride until the hand of reality hits him on the nose, and he whimpers and wishes he had courage. Often times I feel I can be on top of the world and troubles hit, and I whimper, hoping I had more courage to face the instabilities and problems I have in my life.
All four are off to see the Wizard of Oz. Often times I wonder what road we travel down and who that Wizard of Oz could be. The curtains of Heavens have opened, and we are the characters in His Story. We can be brainless sometimes by our thoughts and actions by what we do. Sometimes we can be heartless towards others. Then there are those moments we feel we can conquer anything and God puts reality back into our lives. The reality that makes us yearn for the courage to stick through things.
Our stage (life) happens in God’s story. Yes, we write out our story, and He puts it into production. The show must go on. The curtains of Heaven will remain open as long as we have this attitude: You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness (Eph. 4:22-24). No matter what happens in our story, we have to keep a new attitude because Christ creates that Yes (2 Cor. 1:20). We can be more than conquerors in our land of Odds. When we come together with our troubles, and we can be off to see the “Wizard” then we truly know that Christ will set the stage as long as we allow to listen to the curtain call and perform for Him.
