Bible focus Nativity play.
This Year……This
year can I be Herod?
This year…..Can I be …. HIM?
A
wise man …or a Joseph? An Inn man…or a
King?
This Year can I be famous? This year can I be best?
Bear
a crown of silver, and wear a golden vest?
This year can I be starlight? This
year can I stand out?
Feel
the swish of curtains, and hear the front row shout
“Hurray,
for good old Ronnie; He brings a gift of gold;
Head
afire with tinsel. The greatest story
ever told
Hurray
for good old Herod And for shepherds from afar “
“So
, please….. don’t make me a palm
tree!!!!
And
can I be ….. A STAR.
We've all been there, haven’t we;- The ego trip, the journey
of pride;- the promotion of self.
Climbing up
the ladder of the rat-race, unconcerned who we knock off for our advancement.
The
footballer scoring the goal, who has to run the length of the park sliding on
the grass with arms raised to where his video team are poised.
The speaker
at the stamp club who suggests there are only two known copies of a particular
item… and he just happens to have both (
mind you, not too slow to say they cost an arm and a leg )
The person
who puts little effort into his club, but feels popped if he is not invited to
the platform at the prize-giving.
The bakers
in recent crisis who milked the system for themselves and left countless others
poorer off.
The
ministry of Jesus, revealed in the Christmas season, is truly one of humility. Jesus the
master of humility, though He is God acted as though He was one of us, powerful
but allowed Himself to fall under the power of the Romans;- The wisest, but
allowed and submit himself to be taught by the teachers;- all sufficient but He
borrowed, rode on as an ass and lived a life of material and financial
insignificance...
Humility means understanding that the
delights, pains and needs of others are as important as our own, even though
they don’t feel so. When we are humble, we can
laugh at our self- importance and sometimes, even, set it aside. We can see our
own faults and the strengths of others, and we recognize how much we have been
given, unearned.
(Rev W Izett)