Queen for a day!
This is Your Life, and Queen for a Day, were television shows back in the good old days. Queen for a Day aired in 1945 and its last show was in 2004. This is Your Life aired in 1952 and its last show was 1987. The object of both of these shows were to reveal what the contestant’s life consisted of. In the case of Queen for a day, they would choose from letters sent in to this television station, pleading the show for some benevolence to help the needy situation, in which they found themselves. Often times it was the needs of their crippled child, husband that couldn’t work, or some tragedy that left them helpless, and they would plead their case, if they were picked as a contestant on the show.
In the case of, This is Your Life, they would choose a person, most times a television or theater personality, and they would surprise them by having them come on the show. Then trying to guess a voice from the people from their past, as they would lay out bits and pieces of fabric of their life. Sometimes the contestant would immediately know who the voice belongs to and would be shocked and surprised that they came all this way to honor them. Other times they would remain clueless until the person presented themselves to the shocked contestant.
I can remember as a child wishing my mother could be chosen to be Queen for a Day. The lady chosen would get a big bouquet of flowers, a royal robe, a scepter, and got to sit on a big throne while they lavished her with her greatest wishes and gifts. It is something I wanted my mother to experience. The same could be said for This is Your Life. They could contact people from my mother’s childhood, high school, college, and all the organizations she found herself leading or attending. Needless to say none of my childhood wishes in these areas came to fruition.
If you were choses to be the contestant on This is Your Life, what would they say about you? Would there be episodes in your life that you would not want to be aired on television? Would you have any great accomplishments in your life for them to expound upon? Or would you prefer to keep your past buried, with the fewer people knowing about it the better? Could you bear your soul to the MC on Queen for a Day? Telling the world your problems and throwing yourself on the mercy of the television broadcasting agency?
Of course those things I wished for in my youth never happened to my parents. But something even better happened, they both became royalty. Not just them, but every member of our family. Because we believe that Jesus Christ is the living son of God, and He is the King of Kings, when we accepted him as our Saviour, we became royalty. We are not just royalty, but the Bible tells us: The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; that means we are heirs to the kingdom of God! That’s better than any daytime TV show in the world.
As parents we need to teach our children to live their lives to please God, so it could stand up to any scrutiny it was put through. Teach them that their greatest value is knowing where they will spend eternity, and help them understand how to be assured of that. Stay in the Word together with your children. Teach them how to act like the royalty they are, as children of God.
We as authors often delve into people’s past, to clarify how our leading character got to the place in their lives, when they are introduced in the story. It is a popular opinion that most authors write from personal experiences in their lives. What a witness we could be to the world if we have a testimony of being a child of God and an heir to His throne.
Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
Romans 2: 6-8
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Luke 6:31
In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Deuteronomy 30:16
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Matthew 7:12
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Ephesians 4:32
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20