The whole world is a stage, and everybody’s playing a part. This is a title of a song back in the day by Sweet James and the Fantastic Four that’s ringing loud in my thoughts this day.
When we prepare for the day, in actuality we’re getting into character for our daily performance wherever. We put on the character we want the world to see, then act accordingly. This is a big reason why we’re misunderstood so many times as this invalid behavior keeps us unjustly, and too often in situations of clarification when people try to define us built on what they see. The world sees this character and evaluates us of how we play the lead – unknowingly to them it’s a performance, an act we’ve perfected, and many of us start to believe we are this character we’ve created, too, several of us take this make believe personality home, and never get out of character; yet again, they’re some individuals who fall in love with this manufactured demeanor and on and on it goes … but God.
God doesn’t fall for the characters we portray. He goes past that to look at the heart because that’s where He’ll find the true you and that’s what He loves about you and me unconditionally — our true hearts; not a character, — and so will others regardless if our position is the same or different from theirs as long as we’re true and not playing a role. I may not like it, and you may not like it, but it’ll be true; only then can I really know whom I’m dealing, and so with you, eventually things can get accomplished. But if we’re both in character — we’re battling with our heart and with each other and at that point things have a chance to get complicated.
Our true heart is made in God’s image and likeness, but a character gets in the way because of the role which it has to play before the world — ultimately, we all fall victim to it regardless if we’re the winner or the loser.
I’m so thankful I don’t have to clarify myself or something, nor be misunderstood when I’m spending time in the presence of God. He knows where I’m coming from and if I’m bringing a character to our quiet time. He’ll quickly catch that by revealing a passage from the Bible, which is His Word — that’ll put an immediate stop to all that nonsense because He’ll never be in agreement with whom I portray but is always in agreement with who I I’m in Him. It’s not about who I think I am, it’s about what He knows I am and has created in me, and He’s never wrong. (Romans 3:4) reads, Let God be true and every man a liar. God knows what He put in me and where my heart is at any particular moment regardless of any misrepresentation of me I present – so no clarification is needed because He knows me better than me. What a breath of fresh air it is to have a relationship with someone who understands you through and through so when you come to them, it’s with all your cards face up; no explanation, no retracting or trying to bring things up to date because of all the mess I’ve created being phony – a hypocrite in God’s eye, but He’s always hitting that homerun being true and straight to the point with me.
Leave your characters in a bottle somewhere and expose your heart; it’s better than anything you can create because it’s of God and the Holy Spirit works from there. Quit evaluating and analyzing others grounded in what you want them to be because of what you think you see in them; they just might be portraying a character in a scene on this world stage — the character you’ve receive because of the character you’re playing, (Luke 6:42).
Gaidi
