Who is Starring in the Story?

We are really good at inviting God into our story. We invite him into our business troubles and ask for a little blessing. We invite him into our family squabbles and ask him to fix our kids. We invite him into our financial woes and ask for the storehouses of heaven to open up. We invite him into our messes and ask that he provide a special touch. We invite him into our sicknesses and ask for healing. It seems that we’re always asking God to come into the busyness and stress of our life to help us out and that’s okay and that’s to be expected - but there’s something more.

Have you ever experienced God inviting you into HIS story? Did you know that he’s been offering the invitation all along? It’s not that God doesn’t want to be in the story of your life but frankly, your story isn’t big enough! Your story is mostly about you. God’s story is all about God and what God is doing to rescue people all over the planet. His story is gigantic and all-encompassing and is changing everything.

God invited Gideon to walk out of a ditch of fear and into His story of delivering His people. God invited Moses from his small story into the God sized story of leading His people out of Egypt. God invited Peter to think bigger than a fishing business and to start fishing for men. God invited Paul out of his arrogant religiosity to go all over the world and preach to those he once persecuted. And the list goes on and on throughout history of people who heeded God’s call.

We love to quote Jeremiah 29:11, “I know the plans that I have for you…” And what about Ephesians 2:10 were Paul states that “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Those plans and those good works are part of God’s story for your life. His story is bigger than you! We tend to trivialize these verses into blessings for us! It’s bigger than that. It’s bigger than buying a boat or a house! It’s the story of seeing God sized things happen in the lives around you. God’s story for you involves the rescue of those he loves and has died for. His story for your life depends on his power and not your own.

Have you ever given thought to what God wants to do in our community? Are you part of His story? Do we, as the church, have any sense of what God is up to and wants to around us or are we just inviting God into the story of our little church and asking God to keep us going another year? It is time to think bigger and put out the sails and go with what God is up to.