Pick a day. Any day. Make it one we’ve already lived. List the things we did that would make a great movie.
Oh, so we want to pick a different day? Okay, do it. The day of our choice is up for Oscar grabs. Make it special, with our greatest achievements.
Now compare that day against Christ. Line the events up against the Jesus ruler. How do they fit in Jesus’ movie? Will we win the Oscar? Will we be invited into Heaven’s gate?
2 Corinthians 9:7 points us to God’s Oscar criteria. Stinginess doesn’t apply. In that great movie in the sky, God wants us to be generous with our love, our time, and our possessions.
“Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”
Romans 12:1 says we can’t exclude ourselves from our generosity. We can’t give just money and draw a line, telling God we’ve done enough. We must reach inside and give God everything.
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.”
John 3:16 reveals God’s example of Do as I Do; not Do as I Say. The Father offered his Son, setting his standard as total and unconditional. We have no excuse.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
James 1:27 is how our personal sacrifice will look to the world. We’ll do the things that aren’t glamorous to man’s eye for the simple reason that God sees them as Oscar material.
“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.”
We want to be a movie star, not in Hollywood, but on God’s movie set. He’s filming it all, and one day, everyone will judge everything we’ve said and done.
When we choose to live like Jesus, we’ll have no regrets about our past deeds being revealed to the world.
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