What’s your story? You do have one. Everyone has a story, and December seems to be a time when we reflect on our story. Today, we begin the last month of the year, rapidly approaching the end of 2018. It seems to me as if we just began this year and we are now getting ready to put it in the record books.
What story are you going to tell this year? Is it a light-hearted one, filled with success, joy, peace and prosperity? Or has it been a devastating year, one filled with struggles, griefs, failures or affliction?
God is a master storyteller Himself. Instead of handing us a book of instructions, He gave us a book filled with people, all of whom have a story. From Genesis to Revelations, people with stories capture our attention.
Adam, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Isaiah, Daniel, Habakkuk, Mary, Simon Peter, Saul, John, and many others tell their story in God’s book. There is much we can learn from them, beginning with the amazing fact that we do not have to be doomed by our story.
In God’s book, every story can end in redemption. That’s God’s business. When we allow Him to be part of our story, He is eager and able to redeem it. “For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” [Col 1:13-14]
What’s your story? Everyone has one. Perhaps the more important question is, have you allowed God to be a part of your story?
