The Director, Producer, and Writer Behind the Scenes

Mike Hosey, An Elder

I have always loved acting.  I’m not great at it, but I’m not too shabby either.  My love of it officially started in high school when I joined the debate team / theater club with all the other nerds and geeks.

One thing you notice pretty quickly in that world of stages and props and curtains is that there is a lot of work that goes on that no one ever sees. It’s work that happens behind the scenes and props, and in the wings of the stage.  Even the actors don’t see it.  In fact, they can lose awareness of all that work and all the people involved in making their scenes shine. Something else you notice pretty quickly as well, is that a good director and writer and producer can make up for a lot of mediocre acting. 

In the end it’s the director, the writer, and sometimes the producer, working behind the scenes to make a story interesting and meaningful.  You never see the director, or the producer, and you certainly never see the writer, but even though you don’t see them, the evidence of their work is unmistakable.

It is, after all, the director who moves the actor from stage right to stage left.  It is the director who, among many other things, picks the props, sets up a scene, or determines the sequence in which the story will be told. And it is the writer who makes the script, and the producer who orders the resources.

On the cosmic stage, God is the director, the writer, and the producer.  He works behind the scenes to make the story interesting and meaningful.  In fact, he is so far behind the scenes that us actors often lose sight and awareness of Him.  But He’s there all the same. As the director, He quietly moves us from stage left to stage right.  As the writer, He recasts the story to make it work for His glory.  As the producer, He changes the schedule of the shoot, or modifies how the actors will be paid, or where the story will be released.

And He always works everything in our scene for the good of those who love Him (Romans 8:28) so that we may become more like His son (Romans 8:29).