Be tolerant enough for everyone to find it easy to play their divinely ordained role in the movie of your life. Some persons might insult you, hate you, steal from you, mock you, delay you, fight you, betray you, gossip about you, defriend you, support you, envy you, love you, like you, or dislike your face.

No matter how insignificant the role of anyone is in your life if your act of intolerance scared such a person away, your movie will skip, or will not make complete sense by the time your production is ready.

Concerning the person that found joy in making you sad, be fair enough to know that he or she didn't bring himself into your script. If God will take the glory of your life, then He should also take the blame for the part of your script that you think doesn't make sense. He wrote the script nobody else did. So, it is unfair to be angry with anyone that insulted you, betrayed you, dumped you, and so on.

If you can remember vividly the drama that played out the day that Jesus was arrested by the gangs that came with Judas Iscariot. You notice that the moment Peter saw what was going on, he took it upon himself to fight in defense of His Lord (Jesus the Christ).

But to his shock, Jesus said something to him according to John chapter 18 verse 11: "So Jesus said to Peter, ‘Put your sword into the sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which My Father has given Me [this is their time]?’”  Meaning this is their role in the movie of my life, they were worked into my script to make it align to Divine Will.

We also notice a similar case in the life of King David, the son of Jesse, one of the ancient kings of the Israelites’ kingdom. After David messed up with the wife of Uriah, one of his military officers. He slept with Beshiba in secret but the Lord God told David through His prophet (Nathan), “Unlike your sin would your punishment be.”

Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun. 2 Samuel 12:10-12.

In the passage of time, the very son of King David, Absalom, rose up and strengthened himself against his father before the eyes of all Israel. David became afraid and decided to elope his kingdom for his life.

As he was fleeing or running away from Jerusalem that very day. On his way, the Bible recorded that a man of no significant identity confronted king David on the way, and even one of David’s men offered to deal with the man that failed to regard the person of the king. All said and done, the response of the king will amaze anyone. David replied to his men, "leave him alone to insult me, maybe God had appointed him to insult me so that by his insult [disrespect for me] the Lord my God will show me mercy and restore me. Let’s see the details for more clarity:

Now when King David came to Bahurim, there was a man from the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei the son of Gera, coming from there. He came out, cursing continuously as he came. And he threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David. And all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. Also, Shimei said thus when he cursed: “Come out! Come out! You bloodthirsty man, you ^[rogue! The Lord has brought upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and the Lord has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son. So now you are caught in your own evil because you are a bloodthirsty man!” Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please, let me go over and take off his head!” But the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? So let him curse because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David.’ Who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’” And David said to Abishai and all his servants, “See how my son who came from my own body seeks my life. How much more now may this Benjamite? Let him alone, and let him curse; for so the Lord has ordered him. It may be that the Lord will look on my affliction and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing this day.” And as David and his men went along the road, Shimei went along the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and kicked up dust. Now the king and all the people who were with him became weary; so, they refreshed themselves there. 2 Samuel 16:5-13.

For any movie you watch especially African movies, it is possible to see a minor actor or actress in the movie insulting or mocking, or disrespecting the main actor or character of the film. Sir/Ma, ordinarily, he wouldn't have found it convenient to do, or the courage wouldn't be there for him to disrespect such a person in a real-life, but right in the movie, the characters understood the role of each person and for the movie to turn out as the director wishes, everyone must play his role correctly and let others be at liberty to do theirs as well.

If anyone in a particular movie felt he was so humiliated, that would be completely a case to settle with either the scriptwriter or the director. Normally, it is not in the place of anyone to hold a matter against another when he or she is not accorded the true respect that's due him in real-life in a movie or play.

This is not different from the life we have been born and enlisted from birth. Our scripts were long written ever before our conceptions. The Lord told Jeremiah in the Book of Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 5 saying, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; Before you were born, I sanctified you; I ordained [scripted] you a prophet to the nations.”

Our scripts predated our conception and birth. Just as movies are not meant for only the main actor to act without a need of interaction with either objects or human beings, the same way, no one is meant to act his script alone. That is to say, you are not on your script alone. And you are not expected to fight when your script has not said you should fight because a scene of your script brought in someone to humiliate or frustrate you, and you are bragging up and down, "I can't take this, do you know who I am?" “I can’t like what I hate.” “I hate to be insulted.” “I have degrees, Masters in 5 courses, I am a professor to professors.” “I have 500, 000 seat auditorium dimensions.” “Do you know how many employees under me?” “If you don’t take your time, I will get you arrested.”

Calm down, friend. Be calming down. The man or woman you are getting mad at was not the writer of your script, he was only invited into your scene, and his coming to act his role is a premise for your progress to the next stage of your life. For as long as you keep skipping scenes and frustrating actors from your stages, you are putting a hold on your progress in the direction of Divine Will.

Imagine if Jesus Christ had said no, he can't stoop low for the devil to tempt Him in the wilderness because He created the devil, it wouldn't make any sense? There wouldn’t have been a victory for Him to celebrate over the defeat of Satan. It would be a half victory. But at every point in His life, we saw how He was learning obedience by the things He suffered.

At a point, He needed to be baptized by John the Baptist, you might decide to ask, but for what? The Bible testified that in Him there was no sin found in Him. Primarily, John was baptizing men as a sign of their repentance from sin. And here is Jesus Christ whom the people could not convict Him of sin, at a point He asked the people, "Who among you convict Me of any sin?" But the people were as quiet as if the question He asked was referring to dead people in a morgue/mortuary.

Jesus told John, stop feeling uncomfortable for this service you are about to do to me. ‘“Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.’ Then he allowed Him.” That was the role of John in the life of Jesus. Though it was not a sign of respect for His person, it was a necessary phase or scene in His life and He didn't fight to stop it.

What do you feel when the situation you find yourself or that confronts you is not what you desire? When your personality is undermined by people that are nowhere your mate, or could not measure up to your economic class and achievement standard, do you frown and throw dust into the air? What do you do in the face of provocative comments, address, look, and oversight? What do you do when you get dividend of hatred in place of love that you bestow or invest in the lives of men and women?

Don't be the reason for the skipping of the movie of your life. Allow people in your script to play their identified roles, your success does not depend on how careful you want people to handle you. Some person out of ignorance of the different scenes of their lives will tell you they hate insult, they hate to be disrespected, yet they want God to be great in their lives, to do His Will in their lives, it wouldn't happen according to your readjustment of personal class and worth value. If it must be God then it must not be as we want it. God is aware of the scenes of our lives and we are not alone in the writing and acting of the story of our lives, and it is not in our power to share the roles. The casts are not our making nor are their roles our preference.

He is the Master of our details. God wrote the details of our lives, and the script makes sense the way it is. He desires that we trust Him every step on the way, and He is ready, and His eyes run to and fro going around the world to have His will come through in our lives. Don't argue it, don't wish to amend it, it makes sense just as it is. Enjoy the role of everyone in the movie of your life, and your story will definitely be perfect.

Peace

Thanks for the gift of your time, I am John Ojoagbene!

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