Come and listen, all who fear God, and I will tell what He has done for me. - Psalm 66:16
We all have a story to tell. A story of how we have been impacted by faith, by God. We all have a story to tell of the goodness we have known in our faith community, and how God has give un hope and a future. Our story, like all stories has its beginning. From there, we could tell a tale of adventure, whether known or unknown to us at the time, it is the adventure called life. Life, with its ups and downs, its joys and sorrows, we probably lost a few characters along the way, but even they and their stories helped our as we lived out our own. Our story is not yet over, it has more chapters yet to be written, more adventure yet to live. More opportunities in which to share. However we don’t ever know how many more chapters there are ahead. Some of us have many more chapters to go while others only a few. The end, however, only God knows. Yet, for those who trust in God, even as the story seems to close on earth, we know it continues forever in the joy of heaven.
God has given us the great greatest story ever told. His story, the story of how he gave his one and only Son to be Salvation for the world. That anyone who would call upon the name of Jesus might have eternal life; a story where hope is always alive, a story that has an impact on everyone who hears it. To live forever in the presence of the almighty, to become one with Christ, co-heirs to the kingdom of heaven. What a great ending to a story; and we wonder, how do we weave this story into our own?
We live a life of love, generosity, simplicity, and most importantly, we live a life of faith and reverent fear of God.
When we each began our story we had no idea where it would go, we had no idea the mistakes we were going to make along the way. We didn’t know what new characters would come and go from our story. Then, it was only the beginning, and we simply lived day by day. We still live day by day, even now, but for some, there is a difference. Now, we know where we’ve been, and perhaps we can see where we are going. We have realized that our faith has given this story new direction. We have found that in our story the most important character is the one called Christ Jesus, the Son of God. He is important because he gave our story a different purpose.
Though we may not know yet, what the future holds, we know that we have a hope of all that the Son has done for us, and we believe He will lead us to a restoration of life here on earth, and our eternal home.
Grace & Peace,
Sam