My Story - Your Story

 Good morning Friends,

This past Saturday was my last installment for now of My Early Story. While there is more I want to write about, namely the early Charismatic Movement, my time in Nashville, and possibly some other things, I need to catch my breath on this. It isn't just a matter of writing; it is a matter of reliving.

I hope you've enjoyed some of this, and I wonder how you view your own story.

In my advancing years I find that I remember things I'd like to forget and forget things I'd like to remember. Thankfully, I can still remember enough to share, I hope, to God's glory. 

The Bible recounts story over and over again. The Exodus is recounted throughout Scripture and is a significant motif in Revelation. The Gospel is very much a recounting of the Great Story. As a pastor, when Christmas and Easter came around, I always felt that I could not improve on the Great Story, my job, if you will, was to portray the Story and pray that the Story of Jesus would capture our hearts. 

What is your story?

And may I gently say, that if our stories have ugliness in them, ugliness that we were the objects of, or ugliness that we generated, that our wonderful Lord and Savior Jesus Christ cleanses us and heals us and redeems us and uses even the horrors that may be in our stories for His glory - we have holistic healing in Jesus. 

Life is not always pleasant, life can be terribly hard, life can even be hell at times - but our kind and good Shepherd loves us with the everlasting love of God, and He is our destiny...this life is not all there is...it is the vestibule of our everlasting life and home...a glory beyond comprehension. 

So what is your story?

How are you passing your story on to others, to the glory of Jesus? 

Much love,

Bob