More to the Story

“There is more to the story.

It doesn’t end here.

There is more to the story

then we can see or hear.”

Loren Thornburg

Books and movies are fun because you often get the whole story in one sitting. Sometimes I wish life was a little more like that. Where if I wanted to know the end of the story I could just keep watching, or reading, or listening. But, our own stories don’t work quite like that. We only get one day at a time. However, just like a movie or book is not over halfway so there are more to our own stories. It’s just so hard to see that when we are in the middle of something that is really hard. It’s seems impossible to see past or out of it or that it will ever end. At this point it feels like the end of the story, but there is more. There is more to your story if you will just keep going, one day at a time, one page at a time knowing that the place you find yourself is not the end...there is more!!

“Friends, when life gets really difficult, don’t jump to the conclusion that God isn’t on the job. Instead be glad that you are in the very thick of what Christ experienced. This is a spiritual refining process, with glory just around the corner.”

1 Peter 4: 12-13 MSG

God is a God who is all about restoration, revival, and redemption. With this in mind we can know He is not about to stop writing the story of your life in the middle of it. I love all the places that His word speaks to this. We see in Isaiah the picture of Israel as a stump but the promise that it will be a “holy seed that will grow again.” We see all the stories in the gospel of healings and lives brought back from the dead, with the ultimate resurrection of Christ. Yet, with this I can so relate to the disciples. Jesus told them there would be more to the story but they couldn’t understand it all. So even when He died they believed it was the end of the story...but, there was more. The same is true for our own stories...there is more. So take the encouragement of Peter that in the midst of difficulty we can hang on knowing that God is on the job and therefore there is “glory just around the corner.” We can trust that there is more to the story than the place we find ourselves in.