God Is the Author
In the Bible, God has many titles.
But there is one title that we don't consider enough: Author
“Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk? The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him. But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and you killed the Author of life...” (Acts 3:12-15) Hebrews 2:10: Author of salvation Hebrews 12:2: Author and perfecter of our faith
So, what does He write?
God is working with real, live human beings to whom He has granted a free will.
God could have made us all robots that are completely under His control and will always do exactly what He wants us to do. But He didn’t.
In understanding this, it is important for us to see our own stories from God’s perspective. When we only look at our stories from our own limited perspective we’re not thinking the way that God does.
Abraham God gave him a promise that his offspring would be more numerous than the sands on the seashore.
In hope he [Abraham] believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be." He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. (Romans 4:18-21)
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. (Hebrews 11:8-10)
David
David’s name is mentioned more than 50 times in the New Testament, always in a positive light. He is the ideal pattern of the Old Testament kings.
David's New Testament story sounds so much better than the day-by-day depiction we read in the Old Testament.
Our stories sound so much better when they are told by the Author.
Because of the death and resurrection of Jesus the sin is gone. It’s actually not there anymore. We are new creatures in Him.
Moses When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. (Exodus 2:15)
By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. (Hebrews 11:24-27)
He left because He was following God.
We tend to rehearse history in our minds, replaying it over and over.
But we only see our limited perspective. We only see a small piece of a gigantic puzzle.
People tend to live up to what they really believe.
You should allow God to read your story to you. Climb up on Daddy’s lap and let Him tell you the real story. Because His is so much better than what you think.
His is a story of how you have been made holy and righteous. How you are pure and spotless. How you have been made clean and perfect. How you have been transferred from darkness to light. How you are a “chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God's] own possession...” (1 Peter 2:9) How you were once alienated from God but now have been brought near. How God has adopted you into His family and made you His child. It’s an amazing story of love and forgiveness.
What we have to recognize is that we are in Christ.
"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." (Romans 8:1)
In Christ: Our status, our state of being.
So if you're in Christ, whatever is true about Christ is true about you.
God sees you – as He sees Jesus, because you are in Him.
"For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God." (Colossians 3:3)
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Sarah Walton’s story
What if you truly saw yourself as being in Christ?
Allow God – the Author – to read you His version of your story.
