JESUS ISN’T YOUR SUPPORTING ACTOR by J. D. Greear for Core Christianity
What’s the point of your life?
We’re on this earth, the Apostle Peter says, to glorify God and amplify the gospel: “Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits” (1 Peter 2:12 CSB).
For someone who is a resident of this world, what matters is that they get the recognition, the justice, and the reward they deserve here. For someone who is a citizen of heaven, what matters is how their situation prepares them and others for that home.
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Imagine your life as a movie. Who would the main character be? In every movie, there are major characters and minor characters. What happens to minor characters is not as important because the story is about the major character.
I’m guessing that in the movie of your life, you generally see yourself as the major character. I’d like to convince you to rethink that decision.
I’ve seen advertisements for the new Top Gun movie, and I am more than a little excited. The original was one of my favorite movies of the 1980s. For those of you who (shame) haven’t seen it, the main character was Maverick, of course, played by Tom Cruise—who, like Nicolas Cage, is the main character in every movie he plays. But Goose was actually a better character, and a better guy, if you ask me. Goose’s whole role in the movie is to die so that Maverick can develop convictions of his own and become the man his dad always thought he could be.
Goose’s story is tragic, but his story contributes to a larger story, and that story is one that turns out well.
