Saturday, April 2, 2011

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett wrote a two act play in which five actors spend the entire time by a tree waiting for Godot. He never comes and we do not learn who he is and why it was important to meet him.
Someone described the play as a play in which nothing happens, twice.
Another said, "nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful."
This the way the world views the end times and Christ's return. Though Beckett denied that his play had anything to do with Christianity it is as if he is saying about life, "Nobody comes, nobody goes, nothing changes, life is meaningless."
As Christians we know that is not true. However, how we wait for God tells the world a great deal about what we believe about His return and the meaning of life.

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