Life as a Book
This past Sunday, Common Ground Community Church said good journey to two of our members. One young man is a Naval Medical Officer and is transferring to Jacksonville, FL. The other young man has been blessed with a promotion in the company he works for and is moving out west. I will miss both men, but plan to keep in contact. Reflecting on the memories of ministering with and working along aside both men, I can’t help but think about how our lives are like books. We are living books and God is our author.
Most books have units and/or chapters. The units in our lives would be age groups, such as unit 1 is childhood, unit 2 teen years, unit 3 young adulthood (ages 18 – 25), unit 4 adulthood (ages 26 – 36), unit 5 middle-age (ages 37 – 55), and unit 6 seniors (ages 56 and up). Within each unit can be any number of chapters. I just finished reading a novel that had 133 chapters; however, each chapter was no longer than 5 to 6 pages. I’ve read books that had only 10 to 15 chapters, but each chapter had 30 to 40 pages. Just as books vary in their lengths and number of chapters so are each individual lives. God is the author of each book. He writes our story and He creates the beginning and conclusion of each chapter. Some chapters smoothly transition from one chapter to the next so nicely we fail to notice the change. With other chapters, when they end you know that the beginning of the next chapter the story will have a different feel to it (i.e. death of a family member, the beginning of a marriage, an end to a friendship, a birth of a child, etc.).
Charles F. Stanley in his book, “Walking Wisely: Real Guidance for Life's Journey” talks about (in part) about the seasons (or chapters) in a Christian’s life. He talks about how there are some people who are meant to be in your life for only a season and then God removes them (by death, moving away, or just a change). God is the author, and thus has the right to write the book as He sees fit, good, bad, or indifferent. We are to bring Him glory with our lives.
Just as a good novel is planned out before the author writes it, God planned our book or life. In Ephesians 1, Paul writes that God knew us and predestined us to be His children. Even before God said, “Let there be light.” He planned our story. When your life changes for the good, bad, or indifferent it’s just the conclusion of one chapter and the beginning of a new one. When all is said and done, your life will be a masterpiece because God is the author of it. You’ve trusted you eternal soul to Him, trust that He knows what He is doing in your life. After all, your life isn’t yours it belongs to Him who created you.
This past Sunday, Common Ground Community Church said good journey to two of our members. One young man is a Naval Medical Officer and is transferring to Jacksonville, FL. The other young man has been blessed with a promotion in the company he works for and is moving out west. I will miss both men, but plan to keep in contact. Reflecting on the memories of ministering with and working along aside both men, I can’t help but think about how our lives are like books. We are living books and God is our author.
Most books have units and/or chapters. The units in our lives would be age groups, such as unit 1 is childhood, unit 2 teen years, unit 3 young adulthood (ages 18 – 25), unit 4 adulthood (ages 26 – 36), unit 5 middle-age (ages 37 – 55), and unit 6 seniors (ages 56 and up). Within each unit can be any number of chapters. I just finished reading a novel that had 133 chapters; however, each chapter was no longer than 5 to 6 pages. I’ve read books that had only 10 to 15 chapters, but each chapter had 30 to 40 pages. Just as books vary in their lengths and number of chapters so are each individual lives. God is the author of each book. He writes our story and He creates the beginning and conclusion of each chapter. Some chapters smoothly transition from one chapter to the next so nicely we fail to notice the change. With other chapters, when they end you know that the beginning of the next chapter the story will have a different feel to it (i.e. death of a family member, the beginning of a marriage, an end to a friendship, a birth of a child, etc.).
Charles F. Stanley in his book, “Walking Wisely: Real Guidance for Life's Journey” talks about (in part) about the seasons (or chapters) in a Christian’s life. He talks about how there are some people who are meant to be in your life for only a season and then God removes them (by death, moving away, or just a change). God is the author, and thus has the right to write the book as He sees fit, good, bad, or indifferent. We are to bring Him glory with our lives.
Just as a good novel is planned out before the author writes it, God planned our book or life. In Ephesians 1, Paul writes that God knew us and predestined us to be His children. Even before God said, “Let there be light.” He planned our story. When your life changes for the good, bad, or indifferent it’s just the conclusion of one chapter and the beginning of a new one. When all is said and done, your life will be a masterpiece because God is the author of it. You’ve trusted you eternal soul to Him, trust that He knows what He is doing in your life. After all, your life isn’t yours it belongs to Him who created you.
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