Have you ever thought about your life as a book in the Bible? We are doing a study in the book of Joshua at church and I've been thinking. The Bible is full of stories of people's lives and the hills and valleys that they experienced. Their sin their obedience. It's all in there. So, what would the book of Lori be like? Hmmm....interesting thought ain't it?
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Chapter 1 would most definitely be about my childhood. The way I was raised in a loving home with wonderful Godly parents. It would discuss how I was the child that could make even James Dobson scratch his head every once in a while. There would probably be a verse or two in there about how at a young age I had to learn things the hard way. I couldn't just listen to advice or instruction and heed it, I had to actually do it before I believed it for myself.
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Chapter 2 and 3 would probably consist of my early teens years. The years where I finally realized that I did know everything and my parents knew nothing. They were just trying to ruin my life you know. They were old and didn't know a single thing about anything. There would be a verse or two in there that discussed different lies I told and ways that I got myself out of trouble using my deceptive tongue (probably around these verses is where the analogy of a snake would appear...haha).
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As you continued to flip through the book of Lori you would come to several chapters that talked about my late teens and early 20s. How I became pregnant at the age of 17, a wife and mother at the age of 18. How I wandered through the desert for years and years trying to lead my own life to only make an even bigger mess of it. If you were studying the book of Lori you would probably, at this point, scratch your head and wonder why in the world I was in the desert. You, the reader, could see the light at the end of the tunnel and you could see the destructive road I was on and the entire time you just sit there shaking your head.
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As you would continue your study you would finally come to a chapter that discusses my turn around. The events in my life that finally led me to Jesus. This part of the book of Lori would begin to paint a picture of a broken woman who was finally beginning to see that she had made a mess out of her life. I began to realize that I needed God more than anything and that without him I was truly nothing.
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There have been many great things about my life and there have been many not so great things about my life. Some of the pain I have caused myself and some of the pain has been caused to teach me a lesson. But if there is one thing I want more than anything it is to know that the very last verse in the book of Lori says "...when her life was over everyone was able to see how great God truly is." I have spent many years living a life that was nothing more than a lie and now I want nothing more than to be a light that makes other people stop and look. Ask me what is so different about me. God's covenant to us is the same today as it was before we even existed.
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Nehemiah 9:32 says "O our God, the great, mighty and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love, do not let all this hardship seem trifling in your eyes..." I found this verse just this morning and honestly I'm not sure what is written in the verses before this one or even after this one. I'm not sure exactly what was going on at this time for this verse to be written and what the significance of it is in full context but what I do know is that when I read this verse it reassures me that God is great, mighty and awesome. He was way back then and he is right now. He keeps his covenant of love and no matter what hardship I face in my life I know that he has brought me to it and he will most definitely bring me through it. What would your book be about? How would it start? Would it get real interesting in the middle? But, more importantly, how would it end?
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