The Story.
Every body has a story, whether good or bad. Nevertheless, it’s what a person has been through. Nobody know’s your story, nor will they be able to understand you or why you are the way you are. In every narrative of your life, there is a structure of the sequence of all the events or plots of your life. The Narrative structure of who you are or where you’ve come from is almost an enigma to others but also even to you as well. So as you try to figure out who you are in this life and world, there is always someone that is trying to change the narrative of you story. If that isn’t enough, if your own understand of the plots or the structure has been guided by the wrong events in your narrative, your whole story will be compromised even to you. In layman’s terms, your epilogue will be read through the eyes and heart of someone else’s narrative.
The older generation leaves us with these word: “May the life I live speak for me.” It’s really ironic, that the life I lived may have been determined by the influence of others. Wouldn’t that be a sad epithet on your grave stone? It would read something like this: “Here lies so-and-so, who lived their life according to the thoughts and opinions of others.” That’s not a good epithet is it? Your life is too short lived, likened unto grass; to be bothered by the lies an foolishness of others.
Even in the Bible reads in the book of: 1 Peter 1:24 “For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:”
Now seeing that we are allowing the influence of this world to change our narrative and to determine our end, where do you stand? Who has changed your story?
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
1 John 2:15-18
In my conclusion, take this with you: Time is short and the days are not long.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Hebrews 9:27-28
Hebrews 3:15
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. 6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Hebrews 4:1-11
(Selah)