The Greatest Gift of Life
Characters:
Jeff - a hard
working man, who sincerely loves God
and trusts Him to provide
for his family's every need,
instead
of trusting in worldly riches.
Susan - a
loving wife and mother who feels blessed
to be able to pursue the
career of her
choice, which
is taking care of her husband and daughter.
Betsy - Jeff
and Susan's freckled-faced, red-headed,
inquisitive, and lovable little
daughter.
Lois - Jeff's
wealthy sister, who learns that trusting
in the wealth of the world to meet her
needs causes a
great emptiness in her life.
SCENE I
The scene
opens with Betsy thoughtfully watching her father as he
washes their older model car in the driveway of their older medium-sized
house.
Betsy: Daddy,
why don't we have a new car and a big new
house
like
Aunt Lois does?
Jeff (pausing
for a minute): Do you think you would be
happier
if we did?
Betsy (openly
surprised): I don't know! Is that why Aunt
Lois
wanted those
things,
because she
isn't
happy?
Jeff
(lovingly scooping Betsy up into his arms): You know
Kitten,
that is exactly
what
some
people do when they aren't
happy with
their life - fill it up with things.
They
think they
can buy happiness
by seeking the wealth of the world and
surrounding
themselves with it.
Betsy: Why isn't Aunt Lois happy with her life?
Jeff
(speaking sadly): Because she doesn't have the
greatest
gift of life ...
a loving
and
personal relationship
with God.
Betsy
(taking her father's face in her two little hands
and looking
deeply
into his
eyes)
Do you have
that gift
Daddy?
Jeff
(giving
Betsy a warm smile and a firm hug): Yes, I do
Kitten,
and I
feel richer
than any rich man
on earth.
SCENE II
The scene
opens with Betsy sitting on a stool at the kitchen
counter helping her mother
prepare cinnamon rolls to bake.
Betsy:
Mommie, do you have the greatest gift of life like
Daddy does?
Susan: If you mean do I have a loving and personal
relationship
with
the
God who
created you and me and Daddy and everyone
else ...
yes, I do!
Betsy: Does that make you happy?
Susan (placing the rolls on a baking sheet): It does when I let it.
Betsy
(helping her mother put the rolls on the baking sheet):
How do
you
let it?
Susan: By
being content with what God provides for me instead
of
wanting
what
everybody else is
getting for themselves.
Betsy: Would
you like to have a new house and car like Aunt Lois
has?
Susan
(opening the oven and putting the rolls in to bake): Not if
it
would
cause me
to focus
more on things than God.
Betsy
(climbing down from the stool and following her mother
to the sink):
What
does focus mean?
Susan
(rinsing some dishes and placing them in the dishwasher):
Focus
means to pay
more attention
to one thing than you do to
another.
Betsy: So, you want to focus more on God than things.
Susan: Yes,
and if I do what God ask me to do, then He will see
that
my
needs are
taken care of. He
knows what I should have
and what
I shouldn't
have. So I trust
Him to take good care of
me
- just like
Daddy and I take
good care of you.
Betsy
(looking up at her mother with a whimsical grin): God is like
a
Daddy
and
Mommie?
Susan (wiping
her hands and then lovingly picking up her daughter):
Well,
I guess
you could say that. He
created us and provides for
us.
But there
is another role God
plays in our life - He is
also our
Savior.
When we make
mistakes or do things that we shouldn't
have done
and we are
truly sorry
about it, He forgives us and
helps us to
start over and do things right.
SCENE III
The scene
opens with Susan and Betsy sitting on
the couch reading a book, when the doorbell rings.
Susan
(getting up and opening the door): Hi Lois, come in. I'm
glad to see you.
Lois (entering the house): Something sure smells good!
Susan
(closing the door): Oh, that must be the cinnamon rolls
Betsy and I are
baking.
Lois
(bursting into tears): Oh Susie, I am so miserable.
That is
why I wanted
to
come to your
house. There is so much
happiness
in this house. All of you seem
to find
such happiness
in
the simple
things of life, while I have an abundance of
things
without
much
happiness -
why?
Betsy
(rushing to her aunt's side and giving her a hug):
Aunt Lois,
you need the
greatest
gift
of life like Mommie and
Daddy have.
Lois (looking
down astonished at her little niece): What is the
greatest gift of
life?
Betsy: Having
God be like a Daddy and Mommie and Savior
to you.
Lois (looking bewildered): Susie, what is she talking about?
Susan: She is
giving a simple explanation of the roles that the
God of all
creation,
God the Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit, want
to
fulfill in our lives if
we will let Him.
Lois (sinking
down wearily into a chair): Oh, I know that you and
my little
brother
believe that God
will take care of you. But you
have to because you
don't have the
money to get everything
you
want.
But I have the money to get
anything I want.
Susan
(sitting down on the couch with Betsy): Lois, even if Jeff
and I had the
money
to get
everything we wanted, we would not
want
to give up our loving
and personal relationship
with God.
Earthly
riches are not dependable, but God
is always dependable.
Lois: How do you know for sure that you can depend on Him?
Susan:
Because He made some promises to us and recorded them
in the Bible
so we
would know what
He earnestly desires to do for
us.
Then we trust Him
to keep those promises as long as we
are
obedient
to His instructions in regards
to how to live our
lives.
Lois: You really believe this, don't you?
Susan: Yes, I
do. You have the riches of the world but they
don't
seem to be
bringing
you the happiness
you need. Why not
try a
personal and loving relationship
with the
One who created
you and
wants to redeem you from your vain search
for happiness
in earthly
riches and
things? You
can't find lasting happiness apart
from God's
eternal
love which gives to you His redemption, provision,
and protection.
Lois (gently sobbing): Why should God care whether I'm happy or
not?
I have
never
even given Him a
thought in regards to the way
I live my life.
Susan (rising
from the couch, handing Lois some tissues, and gently
putting her
arm
around her): That is
why it is called the greatest
gift
of life. It doesn't
matter what
you have done in the
past.
God
is
ready to forgive you and give you
a new beginning
the moment
you are
truly
sorry for living a life that was not
pleasing to Him.
Lois: Will He make me give up all my earthly riches?
Susan: He
always allows us to choose, He never demands His own
way.
He will let
you
choose
unhappiness with an abundance of things,
or
lasting happiness with Him.
You
can't love
earthly riches or things
and God at the same time. Why would you
want to
cling to
something
that is not bringing you lasting happiness? Actually,
your earthly
riches is not
the problem, your focus on how to use them is the
problem.
Lois: What do you mean my focus?
Susan: The
Bible says that the earth and everything that is
in it and
everyone who
is
upon it belongs
to God. You could
use the earthly
riches which you have acquired,
which
really
belong to
God, to bless
others on His behalf. That way your
focus or
attention
would not be
on
yourself and what God's
earthly riches could do for you,
but what
they
could do for
others. The Bible says it is more blessed to give than
to
receive. It would
give you
lasting happiness to share God's
riches
on His behalf
with those He shows to
you that are
in
true need.
Lois: I would
like that. What must I do to start over and do
things
differently,
so I
can have this
lasting happiness.
Susan: Just
by telling God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
that you
didn't
understand
until now why
you had been given
so much of the
earth's riches.
But you are starting
to
understand and
you want to be
a giver on His behalf
and not
just a receiver. And
you are sorry for
the
way you have lived
your
life up until now and you want to learn
how to live your
life
pleasing in His
sight not the world's. That you
want to
have a
loving and personal
relationship
with Him more than
with earthly riches or things.
Then thank Him for His
never-ending
love, mercy, grace and forgiveness towards
you.
Lois, He is
waiting
with open
arms to welcome you into His way
of life which
leads to
lasting happiness.
Betsy (who
had been silently listening as her mother and
Aunt Lois
talked,
got off
the couch and ran
to her aunt's side):
Then you will
have the greatest
gift of life
too. Won't that be
wonderful?
Daddy will be so happy!
Scriptural instructions with a promise:
"Lay not
up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth
and rust does
corrupt, and where
thieves break through and
steal: but lay up for yourselves
treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where
thieves
do
not break through and steal: for
where your treasure is,
there will
your heart be
also. You can not serve God and
wealth."
Matthew 6:19-21,24
"Therefore
take no thought, saying: what shall we eat, or
what
shall we drink,
or
wherewithal shall
we be clothed?
For all these
things do the unrighteous seek.
Your Heavenly
Father knows
that
you have need of all these things. But seek
first
the Kingdom of God
and His
righteousness; and all these
things shall be
added unto you."
Matthew
6:31-33
"You
say, 'I am rich, with everything I want; I don't need a
thing!
And you don't
realize
that
spiritually you are wretched
and
miserable and poor and blind and
naked. My advice
to you
is to
buy pure gold from Me, gold purified by fire - only
then
will you
be truly
rich..."
Revelation 3:17-18
Let us pray
in agreement that we will follow
the
instructions of God's
Word so
He can fulfill His
promises:
Thank You
Loving Heavenly Father, Beloved Savior, and
Precious Holy Spirit
for making
us aware of our
need to lay up
treasures for ourselves in Heaven
instead of on earth,
so our
thoughts can
be focused on You and not on the things
of earth.
And thank You
that You will help us to
know how to seek Your
Kingdom
first and Your righteousness,
so that You can provide
for
our every need, with
ample left over to bless others on
Your
behalf. To Your honor and
glory and
praise. Amen.
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