Isn’t it true though? I know many of us have felt that way at sometime or another. ‘I just want to be rescued!’ ‘I need someone to save me!’ "’I can’t do it by myself!’ But yet we still work and work. We try so hard to do it on our own, then we simply just can’t take it, and we can’t do it anymore by ourselves no matter how hard we try.
I love this verse from the book of Romans (10:9-10) in Message Bible:
“That's it. You're not "doing" anything; you're simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That's salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: "God has set everything right between him and me!"
That’s it? Is that really all it takes? Yes! When we call out for help we can be rescued, we can have our knight and shining armor come into save us, when we just surrender our hearts to Christ, he’s there to save us.
I love being able to share Christian Drama to anyone I come in contact with! Anytime I have the chance to share…I am totally on board! I feel so blessed to have been involved in OCU's Good News Players, as we were able spread the words of Christ through drama through out several cities and states. Traveling to different churches all over sharing our ministry and being able to pray with the people we had met.
It’s simply amazing that there’s pretty much a skit out there that most everyone can relate to--in good times and in bad ones. Sometimes we just need to laugh and sometimes we just need to cry. I love being able to portray different people through drama--whether it be a teen girl with struggles, an overworked mom, a southern coffee shop waitress, a housewife or a business woman who doesn't know the princess she really is. Each character I portray has a story to tell of their life and the trials and tribulations that they face. It's an awesome feeling when somebody can relate to something that I have performed, by myself or with friends.
Sometimes we just need to know we are loved and know that we can be rescued. Each one of the characters that I interpret has been rescued from loneliness, heartache, fear, sadness, and anger. Sometimes we just let things build up so much that we don’t even realize we’ve completely isolated ourselves from everyone around us. It’s when we realize we can’t do it all on our own and that we need help, it’s then that our rescuer comes to save us. He’s been there all the time, we just have been so preoccupied doing it on our own, we don’t always see that God is always with us. He will never leave us!
After performing and sharing a drama called “Lifeboat,” there are many lessons we can actually learn from this skit. We learn that though we may seem small, God can have bigger plans for us if we just accept Him. Just when we may want to give up, there is always something else we can do or someone else we can help. Just like the lifeboat was there to save the two girls when they needed it. When they reached out for help, there was a lifeboat to rescue them. Jesus is our “lifeboat.” He’s there to rescue us from out sin. All we have to do is admit we’re sinners, believe in that Jesus came to rescue us and confess and tell people how Christ changed out lives. Answering to our calling and living our lives for Christ full of love and ministering to those who haven’t heard is better than sitting all alone in a lifeboat by ourselves waiting to be rescued, when all we have to do is reach out just like we were reached out to and we can do so much more!
Challenge:
Who can you reach out to this week? Who can you help see God’s everlasting love and promise? What can you do to share with this person?
Romans 10:9-10 -- If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. (New Living Translation)
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