Your life is preaching a message whether you are religious or not. You may not feel like it does but your life and your experience's have something to say. I found it difficult believing that my life could in any way help people. Although through sharing my story, both hilarity and tragedy, people seem interested. People connect with story. Jesus throughout the gospels encountered people and jumped into their story.
You may feel like Joe-six pack or Average Jane. But your life is not average especially when you find God has put a message within you. When you find that message you become a messenger. The Bible says in 1 John 5:10 "Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony of God in them."
If you have a chance to visit Clark Fork City Church we are looking at several stories over the next 8 weeks. A woman who was a social out-cast, a man born blind, The Average Joe and several others. These messages are sure to inspire you and your story and urge you into God's Story.
There is a portion in “A River Runs through it” that balances the story with a line “What a beautiful world it was once.” In this stretch of the Story Norman Maclaen described three parts of fishing water: The Rapids, The Deep Bend, The Tail of the Fishing Hole. When we back up from our life it is interesting to view life's parts and how they effect who we are.
Each great story has different parts that are viewed by God in their entirety, our finite minds have a tendency to break down each part and in our (chronos) time frame see events as individuals. God has been at work in our lives before we knew he was there. When we couldn’t see him at work. When nobody else was there, He was. He see's the whole thing. Maybe a bend in the River has thrown your story for a loop, but God will find purpose in it. His River wants to flow through your life.
That is SO amazingly true. I was just telling someone the other day..not to feel frustrated because they didn't know what they wanted to 'be when they grew up.' Well...when I was supposed to be making those decisions,(highschool and college) my profession hadn't even been invented yet. So you just never know. But the scripture speaks about this very thing. The principal of faithfulness. "line up on line" and "faithful with little / faithful with much" and "Glory to Glory." God takes us from the beginning of our faith and leads us on to His completion so that if we just remain faithful, obedient and humble we will attain to that which He "laid hold of us." Years ago it was as if I 'saw through a glass darkly' compared to where I am today. However, I know that I still have a long ways to go. And I'm just referring to the work that I do here in the world..my job, my employment. I know that if God works in such a way in our worldly tasks, imagine what He is doing in our Spiritual lives. Amen.
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