THE LARGER STORY OF GOD
Posted in TheologyLately, I have been thinking a lot through the big picture the Bible paints of God and his continuing story of redemption. The Bible paints it all the way from eternity past to eternity future, but the thing it never misses is that from front to back it is about God and God alone.
Sadly, much of our view of God’s redemptive plan is consumed in painting ourselves as the main character of the story. This is exactly what happened to Lucifer, and to Adam and Eve; they fell in love with themselves and forgot the main character. And from those two distinct moments in time, a new story was begun, not about life, but now about death.
As I look around this little part of the world in which I live everyday,
I can see these two distinct stories happening all of the time. Some people are clearly about God’s story! Not really in perfection, but in practice you can see it in how they spend their time and money, treat their spouses and kids, treat their day at work, and on and on. They wake up in the morning with a desire and plea to know God more, and the script for his story is engraved on their mind (God’s Word). With every aspect of their life it reflects the presence of the Spirit of God in their life through distinct works that build God’s Kingdom, his church; an everlasting kingdom.
Some, even some who call themselves followers of Jesus Christ, have only one script on their mind, “MY SCRIPT!” They are building a kingdom, but the kingdom they are building is their own; the mark of those who are pursuing the wrong story. They are content when everything is falling in line to their script, but agitated and frustrated when anyone dares to break free from the script and ad lib. The word I have noticed that this person uses most is “busy.” That is code for “it doesn’t help me build my kingdom” so I don’t have time. The unfortunate reality for this person is that their kingdom is passing away. Here today…gone tomorrow.
