Stagehand

 November 7, 2024

Recently in our discipleship group meeting we had a time of silence, just listening to what God might be saying to us. Silence is a strange thing; a picture formed in my mind of a curtain on a stage being pulled back. Usually when I think of a curtain being pulled back, I am in the audience, waiting to see what’s about to unfold on stage. This time however, I was the stagehand, the one pulling the cords to reveal to the audience what was about to transpire.

We were considering Hebrews 11:1—“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” What occurs to me is that where we stand determines what we see and what part we play in the whole scenario.

If you’re in the audience, you’re waiting to see what adventure God has already worked out and will be displayed on stage. Sometimes I’m the audience. But I wonder about being the stagehand. Who is in the audience waiting for me to open the curtain so they can see what God has in store for them? And am I paying attention to God’s cues so I am opening the curtain at the right time? 

Which are you today? Audience, waiting for God to reveal your future? Or stagehand, attentive to God’s cues so you can pull back the curtain for someone else?