Acting

I am currently in Rhode Island at the SNED Senior High camp. This is our last camp of the summer, but also the last camp ever for me as a member of this team. I have traveled with this team (3D) for the last two summers and I can honestly say that it has been one of the most enriching experiences of my life. The theme for this week is "The Last Stand". This theme took on a whole new meaning that night as I stood on stage at this camp. I realized that night was my “last stand.” This was the last time that I would have the opportunity to minister to students in this capacity. It was literally the last time I would stand on a stage at a camp as a member of this team. I thought a lot that night about all of the great times that I was able to experience as the Lord moved in the hearts and lives of the students we came in contact with.
After service tonight I was talking with a member of the team about t-shirt ideas for next year. I brought up a shirt idea that I had last year for the team. It was a design that said, "The world is our stage." After our conversation about the shirt design, I went back to my room to have some quiet time. I could not get that quote out of my head. “The world is our stage” It was almost as if God was reminding me that even when I stepped off of that stage tonight, I was entering another stage. As Christians, the world is our stage, some may feel like they are playing the lead roles, while other may feel like stand ins, but the important this is not to focus on who is in the limelight, but making sure we don’t step out of character. I know that when we normally think of actors, they are people pretending to be someone they are not. I like to think of the actors on this stage so as people they are not yet, but with Christ’s help can soon become.

“ The world is our stage, so ACT as if God were real.”