A childless barren couple; despite decades of wanting and attempting to have children – are now in their 90’s with spirits as bare as the wife’s womb. A man, expelled from his home, family and friends because in what started as righteous anger – while witnessing a beating – he murdered someone, panicked and then fled. A celebrated and popular King with many wives and mistresses yet he can’t quite resist one of his warriors wives. This story ends not just in adultery but in a carefully orchestrated murder of the warrior. Our story honor roll is not yet complete. Let’s add two more: couple of prostitutes and two loud-mouthed brothers who fish for a living.

So tell me again why your story is unusable? Insignificant? Too screwed up to be useful?

Is it because you are “just” in Tech Arts and so you “all you do” is labor for an hour to make one 48 second promo/intro video? Or is it because you are “just with Facilities” and all you do is clean the restrooms that no one even notices? Or perhaps you are “just a single mom” that society has turned into somewhat of an OC mom (obsessive-compulsive) by nature to protect your two young kids?

So what about the God view of your story? Not the church view. Not the Religious view. The God view.

That 48 second video; just made an impact on a young Robert Morris! Those clean restrooms just impressed that OC single Mom whose young daughter is Christine Gambill; or Max Lucado.

Best way to connect your story with the God view of your story; read His book of Stories. Not reading it as you probably have before, but read the Bible wearing the ‘lenses’ of this is a book of Stories.

“…Certainly, that is why the Bible is given to us. If God had intended it to be a textbook of doctrine, well, then, he would have written it like one.…if you’ll flip from cover to cover, you’ll notice that it’s overwhelmingly a book of stories-tales of men and women who walked with God. Approach the Scriptures not so much as a manual of Christian principles but as the testimony of God’s friends on what it means to walk with him through a thousand different episodes….Do you see what a different mind-set this is? It’s really quite exciting. …” Quoting from the book Waking the Dead by John Eldredge, Ransomed Heart Ministries

Published August 7, 2014

Topics: Clarity of Faith | Connecting the Dots