What is Your Story?

We have recently been learning at Servant Christian Community Foundation about the importance of stories. The Bible is basically God's story about redemption, salvation, and the church.

We and our families are part of God's story, and His story will continue on forever. I am learning to look at the Bible in this context instead of a book of rules and regulation about how I should act or behave but a story of God's love for me and a story of God's love for everyone on the planet. I once heard K.&nbspP. Yohannan say in a staff meeting several years ago while I served at Gospel for Asia: "You can't change the past, but we can change the future!"

One thing I have realized is that all of my successes and failures are simply chapters in a much larger drama. Today is the next chapter, and because of Jesus' love, I can intimately know the Creator of the universe! That is a better honor than being the CEO of the world's largest company or the greatest athlete or preacher in the world. I can't impress God with my achievements, but I can acknowledge His love and delight in me and reciprocate that love with genuine worship and willing obedience.

As I read some of the Psalms of David (these were chapters in God’s story in David’s life), I can begin the see the tender and intimate relationship that he enjoyed with God. Psalm&nbsp18 brings this out very well, especially in verse 19: "He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me." Now I can begin to understand how David felt in 2&nbspSamuel 6:14-15, how David “Danced before the Lord with all his might” - total abandonment. David was alive, raised from the pit, and God had delivered him.

What is your story? What is the next chapter of your life? It begins today. What decision can you make right now that will put you on a glorious path with God’s greater story? Can you be like a child again that is dancing in the rain simply because it is fun?