A Stage Marked "World"

My guy bombed on the world stage last night.  Everyone desires to be on the world’s stage but few would step there if the play was about pitting us against our strongest rival, if your greatest strength was competing against the strengths of your greatest enemy, if it was by chance that you would win or lose or even suffer a humiliating defeat.  We all have, for no reason we can understand, showed up with our C game in a battle of A’s and with that knowledge we should all consider or count the cost before we willingly step onto a stage marked “World”.

The gospels tell us of an awful story, of God playing on the world stage and suffering a terrible loss.  Some meditations on it reveal that no one seemed to know the whole world was an audience or that the play was the most important of all time.  The most amazing thing is that the Lead played His role flawlessly, a perfect recital, an Oscar winning performance, to an audience that didn’t even attend.  The stakes on the world’s stage are always high but never more high than that Play, The Divine Victory, that to almost all concerned, looked like a humiliating defeat.