The Great Storyteller

In so many ways the beautiful triune God that reigns over all and considers us to be His beloved children is a wonderful storyteller, better than any other storyteller; In all reality He is The Great Storyteller.

He is our Father who is ruling up above us in His dwelling place of Heaven. And from His throne He has and continues to put our lives in motion in the most beautiful, complex, creative, and moving ways that any being in existence could ever imagine. In fact, these stories He fabricates in all of us are so far beyond the imaginations of His created creatures that the methods He uses are ones we could never consider on our own. We can see this in several ways: from the everyday unbelievable events that occur, which we call miracles, to the unexpected good that can be brought out of every trial. Each and every life of His children is a magnificent tale serving as a reflection of who He is, aimed at bringing Him an endless amount of undoubtedly deserved glory.

For the most part God follows a similar pattern of developing each individual human’s story, and it is actually the same plot-line He has orchestrated for the entirety of creation. From endless examples found in His Word and in the lives of ourselves and those around us we can observe this familiar pattern. It really shows up in a 3 stage process, which oddly (not really at all) resembles the Godhead three-in-one.

God creates and opens each story with an unblemished manifestation and representation of His goodness. He has so many potential dreams and plans for the subject of the story to go in so many beautiful directions. But to add even more to the story enables free-will to the creature.

Underneath the loving concept of free-will put forth by God Himself the good, unblemished creation of His rejects the goodness of the creator to seek their own way. In doing so it seems the dreams and plans are forfeited as the story’s subject faces a number of unnecessary hurts, heartaches and hurdles.

But that’s not where it ends. To reveal in an even greater way the goodness of Himself and the story as a whole, He does not abandon the subject yet continues to seek them and does whatever it takes for them to turn from their rejection to acceptance of Him as Lord. In doing so, He offers grace for every moment, for every fault to be forgiven, for every hurt to be healed, and for the goodness to be restored.

In short the story always goes:

Perfection

Rejection

Redemption

Again, this pattern that God chooses to follow in His storytelling is absolutely beautiful and incredibly creative; It is mind-blowingly filled, wrapped, and covered with grace and love! But it also just makes sense. Let me explain… God is the only entirely perfect being and so when He sets something in motion it manifests itself in its highest state of possible perfection, but anything that is created by God, and is therefore not God, has a lesser perfection than His perfection. So the created thing whose highest form of perfection is less than God’s, is bound to not meet up to His perfection and therefore miss the mark, which naturally results in a rejection of Him. And God, knowing this, doesn’t expect us to maintain that perfection, and therefore provides a way of redemption despite our rejection of Him and His ways.

So I’m telling you, and hope you understand this to be true: In everything God is always working to present and tell a story of Redemption!

In closing, I find it appropriate to quote one of my favorite Rend Collective Experiment songs, “A second chance is Heaven’s heart!”

(P.S. Even in the writing of this post, I experienced this 3 stage process of God’s storytelling: It began in perfection with the idea coming to me through the guiding of the Holy Spirit & went smoothly as I began putting it together. I then saved it as a draft to come back to later. As I came back to the draft and added a little bit to it, my computer went psycho and lost everything I added to it! Naturally, I unfortunately rejected God’s ways and didn’t respond to it… uh, all too happily. Thankfully, in the process of redemption, after a little bit of simmering down God pulled it together for me and allowed it to turn out pretty good. Just being real, beloved ones.)