God's Story

The Bible is an incredible story book.  Tales of heros and villians, successes and failures, faithful and unfaithfulness, war and peace, creation and destruction, of good and evil.  Lots of stories to enjoy, lots of examples to learn from.  No matter whom you are, it does not take much reading to find yourself ... somewhere.  For me, often to re-learn about what a moron I am.  Sigh ...

So, that is from my perspective.  But, there are others.  People try to pry things from the Bible it does not say.  They "spiritualize" situations to force what they think should, to be.  They outright lie about what is in the Bible or what the lesson is, to make you think their way or to defend their actions.  But, the Bible exists really only for one reason - to tell of the God's relationship with mankind.  To stretch it beyond this understanding is to misuse the intent of the Bible.

This makes this story book, God's Story Book!  A book of tales about Him and His people.  Okay, there are not His people in there as well, but they do not really fair well across time.

Galatians 1:11-24

In God's Story, we are introduced to the idea that we all have a past.
Paul is talking about himself, defending that he has a right to be heard!
And for all the creditials Paul has, he understood he was doing right!
But he was, oh so, very wrong!

We all have a present.
Paul understood as he wrote to Galatia, that he was forgiven his past offenses to God.
Jesus ministry is all the counts in this life or the next.

We all have a future.
Paul understood and saw Jesus resurrected.
We have victory over death, a life in Jesus.
We are adopted.

We all are to point to Him.
You play a part in His story.
Changes in life and time.
Changes in work and relationships.

Well, something for you to think about, the big picture and not just the mire you may find yourself in.