Do You Trust God's Writing of Your Story? — Transcript

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1. 0:00When Sam and Frodo are in Mordor,
2. 0:01there's still a whole way to go and
3. 0:03they're outnumbered and exhausted and
4. 0:05the ring is getting heavier and heavier.
5. 0:07And suddenly Sam starts reminding Bilbo
6. 0:10of the great stories. And he says, "All
7. 0:12those people were in dark and desperate
8. 0:14places as difficult as the one we're in
9. 0:16now, but they didn't give up, you know,
10. 0:18and it wasn't the end of their story. Do
11. 0:19you suppose we might be in a story, Mr.
12. 0:21Frodo?" And I'm like like I'm reading
13. 0:23this as a you know, I'm like, "Yes, you
14. 0:24are. I'm reading it. Don't worry, guys.
15. 0:26This is not the end. Like this is my
16. 0:28second read-through. It's going to be
17. 0:30it. But the idea, of course, if you're a
18. 0:31reader and a character in a story you're
19. 0:33reading says, "Do you suppose we might
20. 0:35be in a story?" You've got to say,
21. 0:37"Whoa.
22. 0:38Do you suppose I might be in a story?
23. 0:40Someone reading about me?"
24. 0:41>> You know, my idea that, you know, God is
25. 0:43speaking us into being, telling this
26. 0:45great story of creation, fall, and
27. 0:47redemption, and and resurrection, and
28. 0:49renewal. And himself is embodying and
29. 0:51enacting it in Christ. And then he lets
30. 0:53us not admire the hero from afar, but
31. 0:56actually be part of the story, literally
32. 0:59in Christ and Christ in us. That's an
33. 1:01astonishing thing. And I think for
34. 1:03somebody who's felt they've fallen out
35. 1:05of any of a good story that wasn't and
36. 1:06that there's no connection, no thread in
37. 1:08their life, no meaning to the random
38. 1:10pattern of just stuff happening. If you
39. 1:12knew there there is a story,