So What’s Your Story?
This Sunday at Church instead of a sermon, our Pastor decided the church should give a report of it’s investment status. Now with the church we don’t report investments in terms of money, we report it in terms of changed lives. So we had a structured testimony time.
Testimony has several definitions in Webster’s. One is, a public recounting of a religious conversion or experience. That is the one probably most referenced in church. But I like the other part of the definition. It is evidence or proof provided by the existence or appearance of something.
As the men and women told their stories, I sat and cried. I cried because I was hearing of the grace and love and mercy of God and I was reminded of how real He is in my life. I was reminded that everyday, He offers grace and love and mercy to this messed up Dude. I saw on their faces and heard in their voices real evidence of the existence of something greater than ourselves.
In today’s world of privacy and protection, make sure you are not holding back the one thing that offers you the most protection. What do I mean by that? Well, no one can argue with your story. It is an recounting of an experience but mostly it is the evidence or proof of existence in your life. Revelation 12:10-11 says,”Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night. And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony and they did not love their life even when faced with death”. Did you catch that? They overcame the accuser because of the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony.
I am reminded of when little children say, tell me a story. A story allows for them to be guided in the expansion of their imagination and makes them feel part of what you are able to describe. Somewhere deep inside all of us is a little child. So tell me a story. But not one of fantasy and imagination. Tell me one that provides the evidence of a conversion or the existence of God, the One who is greater than you. It is the one thing no one can ever take from you, accuse you of and allows you to overcome. So what’s your story?
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