Reading Psalm 90 today in our Spoken Word Bible Reading Plan brought back a memory of something I used to think about when I was very young. Moses is speaking here about the fact that the adults in the wilderness were dying between the ages of 70 and 80. (This was because of the curse that resulted from the people agreeing with the 10 spies who returned with a negative report of the promised land instead of agreeing with Joshua and Caleb who said that they were well able to take the land.) Look at verse 9:
9 For all our days [out here in this wilderness, says Moses] pass away in Your wrath; we spend our years as a tale that is told [for we adults know we are doomed to die soon, without reaching Canaan].
When I was young I used to have this thought that our lives were really just a story that God was reading and we were the characters in it! Now that I have studied the Word of God for so many years, I realize that this is truer than I thought! Here we are reading about the thoughts and words and actions of Moses and the other Old Testament saints, sometimes treating them as simply characters in a story! But, they were REAL! Their lives were not simply made up stories or fairy tales! These ARE living, breathing people who are now, IF they had faith in the Messiah Who was to come, living in Heaven with the God of the Bible! HALLELUJAH! I also have another revelation for you! WE are in the current "story" being written! Look at 2 Corinthians 3:2-3:
2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. KJV
WE are those "living epistles"! People who see and know us are actively "reading" our lives and deciding if they will believe our "story" and join us! Those born again believers who have already passed over into Heaven are now having their lives "read" by people, sometimes literally! So I have come to realize that the thought I had as a child was very real, except that I am NOT a make believe, made up story! I am, and you are, a living, breathing love letter from God to the lost! Let's make these "stories" (letters, books) available now, while we are still here, so that when we do arrive in Heaven, we will have many people greeting us who read our lives and chose to follow! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Worship with "My Story":
God will always be my story
Nothing less than Christ my Savior
God will always be my hope
Nothing more than Christ alone
And this will be my story
And this will be my song
My chains are broken
I am free
And this will be my story
And this will be my song
I'll praise You my Savior
Jesus
Take my life but give me Jesus
To know You God is why I live
Take the world but give me Jesus
For all my days I'll follow You
And this will be my story
And this will be my song
My chains are broken
I am free
And this will be my story
And this will be my song
I'll praise You my Savior
Jesus
We lift Your name up
We lift Your name
You are higher
There's no one like You, Jesus
(x4)
And this will be my story
And this will be my song
My chains are broken
I am free
And this will be my story
And this will be my song
I'll praise You my Savior
Jesus
We lift Your name up
We lift Your name
You are higher
There's no one like You, Jesus
(x4)
