Abba, Father, I …

I will also give him the morning star. Rev 2:28

Is a Hollywood star worth anything if she/he has no star in the Hollywood walk of Fame?

The Hollywood Walk of Fame, if you do not know, is a sidewalk along Hollywood Blvd and Vine Street in Hollywood, CA, USA,  that is embedded with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars featuring the names of (mostly) human celebs honored for their contributions to the entertainment industry.

But you already knew that, not so?

These and other types of honor are a sought after commodity in the heart of humans (and non humans). It is perhaps an attempt to make one’s mark in the world. A  desire to outlast our quick and fleeting -70+ passage in time through terra firma. Something that says to us:

“I did something while i was here!”

Who did that?

All over the world, people read books. Who invented the printing press?  My mother does not know which German that was, nor does she care. Do you? Who invented these everyday must have life items:- the  TV, the mobile phone, the digital camera? How about the male suit or the female mini skirt? Who came up with the “arial” font face? Perhaps you do not know, and that is okay. You do not have to know these people.

500 years from now, no one will know or care about the fact that one Bill Gates gave us Office with Windows ,  or that Sergey birthed Google and  Steve Jobs made us very excited with his i* series if electronic magic creating devices or that Mark made it possible for you to digitally live forever on Facebook or that Jack Dorsey made it possible for the Library of Congress to catalog even your idling mundane thoughts, and that Tim Bernes-Lee made it possible for me to very easily share this post with you.

All these people have done things worthy of praise and deserve some measure of honor.

This is honor

While many people may not know who Tim Bernes-Lee is, when i mention the following people, most of us (and many other people in other countries ) immediately  know who i am talking about:  Abraham, Moses,  Rahab the prostitute, Esther, Mary and Joseph, the good Samaritan, the woman who wiped Jesus feet with her tears and hair, the boy with five loaves of bread and two little fish.

And, you bet, that as long as the gospel is being preached, even 1000 years from know, Christians all over will care about these people, but they will be amazed that people in the 21st century ( me and you ) could actually get some work done by the use of rudimentary tools such as the the PC and iphone and Internet 2.

Why is that so?

Whom God honors..

Because, the only honor worth having is that which is spoken from the mouth of God. All else is like the dew of the morning, which flies away as soon as the sun comes into its brightness.

What that means, my friends, is that, even as you do a work or seek to leave a mark or in whatever you desire to be known of, if it did not originate as an act of obedience to the word you heard from the Lord God, it really is a waste of time, for when you stand before the son of God, it shall not be counted on your behalf:

I will also give him the morning star (Rev 2:28 NIV)

Whose star is that at?

Going back to the Hollywood walk of fame, there is actually one star that might shine for generations and generations and will be remembered at the end of time. And that person had initially refused the honor!

So, here is your assignment:

Whose star is at address: 6901 Hollywood Blvd?