Meditation #3

        Have you ever thought about being in an epic poem or epic story? Have you ever thought about being in the Iliad or the Odyssey or Gilgamesh or Beowulf? Have you thought about being Frodo in the Lord of the Rings, or Bilbo in the Hobbit? These are stories with heroes and villains, adventures and epic lives, and live and death situations? They give you a life of living beyond yourself and your personal issues, and to be a part of something heroic and transcendent. Well, there’s a true tale that tells you an everlasting story that is written by God through His many prophets and people of faith. God has an epic story to tell to save fallen man from themselves, and those He called are a part of that story. I love reading the bible because everyone who lived and knew God had a part in this epic tale of God’s glory. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and His brothers, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, and the Judges of Israel all had a role to play. Men and women played a role in this epic adventure of God’s story, and God doesn’t play favoritisms between the sexes or class or race or anything that can separate us from each other and Him.

        God’s story is a love story: more specifically a story of God’s love for fallen man, and that love back to God and Man’s fellow man. We will have to face sirens like the hero of the Odyssey, and the monster like in Beowulf, or orcs like in Lord of the Rings, but that’s inevitable in a world that is influenced by satan and his demons. God’s story is an epic story that I want to be a part of. God calls us because He’s writing our history and story about our lives, and He wants us to be a part in His story: to play an important role in His epic tale. Some of us do not know what that role is, but some of us do know that role, and should live up to it with all our might. Rahab helped the spies of Israel, and then married into the lineage of Jesus. Ruth became a widow in a foreign land, and married into a rich man’s heritage becoming the lineage of David and Jesus. Gideon used a little fleece to test and see if God will save Israel through His hand, and He did though 300 men that lapped. These people played a role in God’s epic story.

        I’m sure you are sitting in church listening to a sermon, or sitting at home going on facebook and or possibly reading this blog, and you don’t feel like anything epic is happening in your life. I understand the feeling, but that’s not how life should be. Life is a story full of great adventures: some stories are bad and wicked with moral lessons, and some are good with heroism and good moral lessons. If we have love for God and love for self and others, we’ll have a role in God’s epic story. You maybe a father or a mother or a grandparent or someone whose disabled or you are a small child just learning about life. Whatever stage you are in in life, God has an exciting and epic role for you to play—even if it’s just a small little adventure that’ll make your family and friends smile from it. Maybe it’s a joke that only God can share with His beloved that can make everyone smile: like giving Sarah a son with a name that means laughter. Whatever the situation, life isn’t about self, or violent movies or violent video games or porn, but God’s story for you and me. I have been in this journey with God for 11 years this day, and God hasn’t left me since He called me—even through the good and the bad in my own vain life. God has given me a rich history, and wants a rich history to come to you, so that you can have many tales to tell your children with lessons for each trifle tale. I do believe that God loves a good story, or Jesus wouldn’t have said so many parables to people. This is the God whom I serve, and I hope to find that role in His epic story, and I pray that God will show you your role in His epic story.