Only you can tell your story.
People love to hear a story when someone has been rescued from disaster. You see this on the news all the time. Sometimes, like when there is a plane crash, the news media will interview someone who missed the flight just to get a story from a "survivor".
Really? Your big story is you didn't get on the plane that crashed? Wow, how do you feel, what was it like?
"Well, it was like this, I didn't get on the plane, it crashed and I wasn't on it!"
Sigh... is that a story worth telling?
We have a much bigger story to tell.
Those of us who have come to know the Lord Jesus Christ have been rescued from the Kingdom of Darkness and have been brought into the Kingdom of God. Our life was crashing. Jesus came into it, pulled us from the wreckage, and began to make something new.
That is a story.
We have all been saved from this dying world, each with a story to tell.
Reading Psalm 107 today.
"Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his love endures forever.
Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story—
those he redeemed from the hand of the foe,
those he gathered from the lands,
from east and west, from north and south." Psalm 107:1-3 (NIV)
As Preacher Mike read in his sermon yesterday, "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work." 1 John 3:8 (NIV). Each of us were victims of that work. Each having their life destroyed by the evil one.
We are the redeemed, we have been saved. The way Jesus rescued each of us is an amazing story worth telling. And the best equipped to tell your personal story is you.
Is there someone in your life who needs to hear your story?
