Colossians
3:23-24
NASB
Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the
Lord rather than for men,
knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the
Lord Christ whom you serve.
The
band took their place on the stage for what should have been a normal
concert. They had prepared, and their
sound was really good earlier in the day.
Every person in every section was excited about sharing their talent and
their music with the audience who would be attending the concert that night.
Warming
up was normal, but the room felt a bit odd.
Few people had come in the auditorium at this point. It was getting close to performance
time. You could feel the tension
building among the members of the band.
Where was the audience? Where
were their families and friends and those who always said they loved the
music? Again only a few people showed up
for the concert.
The
music was top notch with perfect sound from start to finish, but every thing
was still strange. There had never been
a concert as such where the audience was so small. Conversations after the concert were centered
not on their performance but on the audience.
That was until they realized who was in the room. The low lighting didn’t allow them to realize
that a distinguished guest had joined them.
Learning this fact would change everyone’s thoughts of how the night
went.
Those
few but fantastic applause came from someone who wanted to hear their music and
was filled with excitement just as the band was. This was a night for everyone to remember.
Looking
back I have to tell you that this might be one of many concerts but not one in
particular. I simply want to draw your
attention to the fact that the most important person in the room is not one
member of the band or the crowd in audience.
The most important person in the room is the person who made up the
“audience of one”. This person is God.
God
loves you. He has a plan for your
life. His desire is for your good and
your abundance. Nothing will change
those facts. That is why we have to
prepare for this audience of one.
Whether ten thousand people show up or one person shows up, give it your
all because it matters. You matter to
God, and what you do matters to Him as well.
God
doesn’t ask up to preform well so He will love us more. In fact God already loves us as much as He
will ever love us. That won’t
change. What will change is how much we
love Him. By preparing for and
recognizing Him we change.
What
audience are you preforming for? Are you
trying to make people like you? Is it
your mom or your dad that you are trying to win the approval of? There is only one person’s approval who
really matters, and that person is God.
Set
your eyes and your heart on Him. Let Him
enjoy your life and your commitment to Him.
Watch how the honor and the blessings seem to flow your direction
because you begin to think of Him and not what others think. It is not about preforming or being
perfect. It is about honoring the one
who loves us most and the one we will ultimately spend more time with than
anyone else.
The
audience does matter. And our audience
is God. He looks on as a loving Father
who delights in His child. He looks on
and He gets involved in the lives of His children filling us with amazing
life. Life is sweeter as we figure out
the audience!
Colossians 1:10
NLT
Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your
lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.
May we
spend our new year focusing on and getting to know Jesus more and more.
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