When we read the ingredients on a package of food, the first items on the list are the most important ones. If it says sugar, then we can know that sugar is the number one ingredient in that product.
Film credits work very much the same way. The first names shown are the big ones, the stars that will “carry” the film. People will come to see those actors even if they aren’t interested in the storyline of the movie.
What are the opening credits we present to the people we come into contact with? What do we reveal first to introduce ourselves to others? Is it our jobs, or the streets on which we live? Or do we describe the make and model of our cars, the more likely to make a good first impression? Perhaps it is our jewelry we flash as we make that initial greeting, knowing that others will see us as prosperous in every way.
How about if we try a new set of opening credits? Let’s cry “Adonai” to those people we meet and let the first impressions we give be that of the person of Jesus.
John 1:1 tells us that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
How’s that for an opening credit? It’s the first thing in the Bible, and it tells us the most important star of the show, God, Creator and Imagineer, the supreme force in the universe.
Genesis 1:26 reinforces John’s words, for this verse reveals God’s creative power spoken in the Almighty’s own words. “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
God “carries” all creation by his singular presence. Because the great Imagineer is there, the rest falls into place just as he designed it to be.
Matthew 28:19 assures us that people will be drawn to God, even if they have been previously pulled to things of this world. Jesus tells us, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
The Christ knew that the people of this world would come unto him for no other reason than that he was the star of the show. The same is still true today. Our existence is all about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Where the Trinity abounds, people will be drawn unto God, and many will be redeemed.
When we let Jesus be the star of all that we do and accomplish, he will draw the lost to the cross.
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