His Story.

"Rather than trying to write God into our stories, we would be wiser to sit patiently with our Father and let him tell us his. We would surely find ourselves in his story and learn that we are not defined by our hurts or our sins, as we may have believed. As he tells us his story, we must be willing to let go of the stories we've told to make sense of our lives. We must let his story rewrite ours and sweep us up into something much greater than ourselves.

.....Your hope need not rest in making sense of it all; rather, you are invited to set your hope of redemption in the Redeemer."

The above is taken directly from a book I'm reading. It's called "Redemption: Freed by Jesus From the Idols We Worship and the Wounds We Carry". It's written by Mike Wilkerson, a pastor at Mars Hill Church. I'm only 33 pages in and it's already SO GOOD. Shoot...I'm still in the introduction and I'm LOVING it. The above statement alone is profound. I've seriously never thought of it like that. I guess I've always considered my life to be my own, even though I know I was purchased by the blood of the Lamb. And - I know it's not about me. It's so easy to rely on yourself. Or - to surrender certain areas of your life but hold on to the rest. In reality, this life...this story... is not about me. I was created to bring honor and glory to the name of Jesus Christ. I'm just lucky enough to be a very small part of such a beautiful story.