Your Story: Written, Directed by and Starring God

Every life is a continuous, unfolding story. A series of experiences and actions.

Even before you were born, God made plans for every second of every day of your life.

Your eyes, God, saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. ~ Psalm 139:16 ~

And while your life may, at times....

...perhaps most of the time...

...feel terribly ordinary...God can and WILL do extraordinary things in you and through you...

If. You. Let. Him.

What is it that makes you feel ordinary today? Unending laundry? Dishes overflowing in the sink? Deadlines stacking up on your desk? Kids that won't cooperate no matter how much you push? That suffocating invisibility that seems to surround you?

Here's the good news. None of that is ordinary to God. Those are the things to which He has called you on this day. Those are the tasks before you and He asks you to do each one as an act of worship to Him.

And you just never know who might be watching. Who is eavesdropping on your life and seeing how you act and react with each thing that comes your way. Who is peeking silently into your world and being moved by your words and actions.

You matter.

Today on Mid-Morning, we talked about the lives of four extraordinary Christians.

Oswald Chambers...whose devotional book My Utmost for His Highest is deemed a classic but wasn't even published until after his death. But through his seemingly ordinary days, God shaped a faith that when scribbled on paper, produced treasures that inspire Christians around the world today.

George Mueller...who began his life as a lying, stealing, gambling young man that no one would ever imagine God could use. But when he gave the Lord his life, he was called to open orphanages that cared for thousands of children over time. His journals chronicled the ways God provided (at the very last minute, often) food for the next meal and for all the other needs of the orphans.

Eric Liddell...was a runner whose bold decision to honor God and the Sabbath by NOT running the race he was favored to win (because it was being run on Sunday) pointed to God when he did win a race on Thursday that no one imagined he could win.

Corrie ten Boom...who, along with her family, was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp for harboring Jews during WW2 and spent the rest of her life sharing her story of God's grace and forgiveness.

You know what you have in common with these four people?

God.

The same God who wrote their stories...is writing yours.

Let Him.

This year, throw down the pen and allow HIM to write.

Shout His glory as you live your days...whatever they hold.