“Bring all who claim me as their God, for I have made them for my glory. It was I who created them.'” Isaiah 43:7
I love a good movie or book. I love the feeling of escaping my day-to-day life for a short time and living in someone else’s. As I’ve gotten older, this thought has become more than just a small desire for adventure and has become a yearning for something bigger, something better, something beyond that of earthly standards. My day-to-day life seems at times quite “boring” compared to the exciting adventures and incredible stories told through the page and screen. I wish to live a character’s life and go through their exciting and unbelievable experiences.
Lately however I’ve been humbled a bit. My life, my story, isn’t really mine. It belongs to my Heavenly Father. Too often do I feel responsible for it and am possessive over the pen that writes out my life. Trying to live my life, writing it on my own can’t possibly work out, so I’m learning to hand over the pen. Leaving my life in God’s hands is not only incredibly freeing but also pretty exciting. I’ve seen Him work out some pretty amazing things in my life and I’m so thankful that He opened my eyes to them.
Yes, I long to be a storybook hero and lead an impossibly insane life but in a way, I am a character. I am a character in God’s story, in His word. Between the last two chapters of the Bible is a gap and in that gap is today, it is our here and now. My story is written in that gap and the author of this book is perfect and loving and good. Learning to notice the small (or sometimes not so small) “God moments” shows me how miraculous my story and my author really are. I’ve seen God heal, humble, lead, and save many broken souls, leaders, wanderers, those without hope, the afraid, the sure, the confident, and the in between. That’s worthy of a story.
Another thing I have come to learn is that the characters in a story never realize that their lives are all that different. It’s just their life and that’s that. While I see a world I’d love to experience, I never thought to realize that the main character doesn’t find the world exciting or in any way out of the ordinary because it’s what they know and are used to. This is the same for us as humans. We see the same town and places day-to-day and fail to realize how great it is and our story is as well. We don’t think our life is anything extraordinary because it’s all we know. We live our lives day in and day out thinking that they’re nothing exceptional, but if we were to write our stories down and let someone far away read them, our stories would be as exciting to them as a new blockbuster movies is to us.
Many times the key to embracing your story is to take a step back from it all and to realize that your story is so much bigger than you ever imagined. Everyday you live out your own unique story while also building on and affecting others’. Your story is intermingled with the stories of everyone around you and you have a chance to impact the world with every decision you make, for better or for worse. The other key to living out the best possible story is to let go of the pen and give it to the one who put the stars into place and made everything out of nothing, and to let him to guide your story along every step of the way. With God writing your story, incredible things beyond our earthly comprehension can begin to take form.
While I may not save a crumbling and broken society, I can help save lost and broken souls from a fate worse than mere death. Though I will never fall in love with a fairy tale prince, my Father is a king and His love is incomparable. While I long to be known by many, I am cherished by an almighty God who created all. And though I long to be swept off my feet by the superhero, Jesus gave His life for me never knowing if I’d ever even love Him back. He saved me. No my life is not perfect 100% of the time, but 100% of the time I am held by the one who is. The one who created the entire universe holds me as precious and calls me His own. Tell me that that isn’t worth a screenplay<3
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Love y’all and God bless:)
Crowned for a Purpose 