A Bible Worthy Story :)

December 5^th, 2011

Sometimes, like today, it strikes me that the people of the bible were real people. They lived real lives and these are real accounts of what happened in those lives. It makes me really excited to get to Heaven when I realize this. Like... I can’t wait to talk to King David about what it was like being Saul’s hunted for years or Absalom what he was thinking when he set Joab’s field on fire.

I want to know how furious Joab was when David welcomed Absalom home and kissed him even after he had set Joab’s field on fire. Or how Tamar felt when her half-brother raped her. How hard it must have been for Bathsheba to marry the man who killed her husband—which eventually killed her first son.

I want to ask Esther’s maidservants what it was like living with her and knowing her as a good friend would. I want her to tell me what was going on in her mind when she realized that she was putting her life at risk for the sake of her people.

And, I want to sit Eve down and ask her what the HECK she was thinking when she listened to a TALKING SNAKE!

I want to ask the shepherds in the field in Luke 2 how their lives were changed after an army of angels appeared in the night to tell them of Jesus, then to go on praising God for who knows how long? I want to talk to the “forgottens” of the bible. Like the woman who had been bleeding for 12 years and was then healed after touching Jesus’ robe.  Or the man who was lowered through the roof in Mark 2 to be healed and able to walk again. I want to know THEIR life stories.

Then I want to talk to people like St. Francis of Assisi, Mother Theresa, Loren Cunningham. People who have given up their lives for the sake of the gospel.

I want a life like theirs though. I want to be desperate to spread your word, Jesus. And I want to be used to inspire GENERATIONS. I wasn’t created this way and with this desire…a desire for something BIG and for something GREAT to be forgotten and lost in the midst of 12 billion people.

I was born to shine and to help others let their lights shine. But, what I’m realizing about these people, all of these people actually, is that they didn’t do anything huge. They just loved Jesus and they loved His people.

Man, I want to live a life like them. I want a story worthy a novel, ya know?

Yeah. I want a story worth a novel.