I thought about this a week or two ago while reading my devotional. It's a great devotional, "The Ransomed Heart" by John Eldredge, published by Thomas-Nelson, a publisher I trust, I enjoy their books and study bibles.
"for He has made us live in an Epic. It warns that the truth is always in danger of being twisted and corrupted and stolen from us because there is a Villain in the Story who hates our hearts and wants to destroy us. It calls us up in to a Story that is truer and deeper than any other, and assures us that there we will find the meaning of our lives.
What if?
What if all the great stories that have ever moved you, brought you joy or tears -- what if they are telling you something about the true Story into which you were born, the Epic into which you have been cast?
We won't begin to understand our lives, or what this so-called gospel is that Christianity speaks of, until we understand the Story in which we have found ourselves. For when you were born, you were born into an Epic that has already been under way for quite some time. It is a Story of beauty and intimacy and adventure, a Story of danger and loss and heroism and betrayal."
---John Eldredge The Ransomed Heart (Epic 14-15)
It made me think a lot, about all the stories of old and new testament, how all things are stringed together in "fine threads of destiny" and how our lives in God are the very same, we're in the middle of a war, raging all around us. Bad things happen and we get beat down, God allows it, everyone always says "God has a plan" but what really brings it to a point of revelation is when you realize something. As I was sitting and thinking on what I just had read, some things were planted in to my heart -- "A hero is never born in luxury, but in tragedy. A warrior is never born in peace, but conflict. an 'abolitionist' is not born free, but a captive." and then it made things very real, all the trials are not meant to break us, but "make" us, because we won't fight if we're not pushed back against a wall. A hero never sets out on adventure when his life is perfect and luxurious, tragedy strikes and takes something away from him and he is stirred to never let it happen to anyone else. a free man does no yearn to be free, he yearns to be free because he is a captive and sets his heart on freeing his friends. A warrior is created by circumstance of war. The trials happen to us to stir who we really are and who we are meant to be, So much we focus on only the good and we fail to see the good in the bad things that happen to us. They truly do make who we are, and if we embrace it, who we are meant to be.
and then "A savior does not save his own life". That is self explainatory I think.
"for He has made us live in an Epic. It warns that the truth is always in danger of being twisted and corrupted and stolen from us because there is a Villain in the Story who hates our hearts and wants to destroy us. It calls us up in to a Story that is truer and deeper than any other, and assures us that there we will find the meaning of our lives.
What if?
What if all the great stories that have ever moved you, brought you joy or tears -- what if they are telling you something about the true Story into which you were born, the Epic into which you have been cast?
We won't begin to understand our lives, or what this so-called gospel is that Christianity speaks of, until we understand the Story in which we have found ourselves. For when you were born, you were born into an Epic that has already been under way for quite some time. It is a Story of beauty and intimacy and adventure, a Story of danger and loss and heroism and betrayal."
---John Eldredge The Ransomed Heart (Epic 14-15)
It made me think a lot, about all the stories of old and new testament, how all things are stringed together in "fine threads of destiny" and how our lives in God are the very same, we're in the middle of a war, raging all around us. Bad things happen and we get beat down, God allows it, everyone always says "God has a plan" but what really brings it to a point of revelation is when you realize something. As I was sitting and thinking on what I just had read, some things were planted in to my heart -- "A hero is never born in luxury, but in tragedy. A warrior is never born in peace, but conflict. an 'abolitionist' is not born free, but a captive." and then it made things very real, all the trials are not meant to break us, but "make" us, because we won't fight if we're not pushed back against a wall. A hero never sets out on adventure when his life is perfect and luxurious, tragedy strikes and takes something away from him and he is stirred to never let it happen to anyone else. a free man does no yearn to be free, he yearns to be free because he is a captive and sets his heart on freeing his friends. A warrior is created by circumstance of war. The trials happen to us to stir who we really are and who we are meant to be, So much we focus on only the good and we fail to see the good in the bad things that happen to us. They truly do make who we are, and if we embrace it, who we are meant to be.
and then "A savior does not save his own life". That is self explainatory I think.
