Thursday, January 21. 2010
An eight-year-old daughter of a friend of mine asked him, "dad, in like a million, thousand years are they going to write a sequel to the Bible?" Here is my long-winded response to her... "God's sequels, unlike many movie sequels, are always more powerful, exciting, etc than the original (ex. 1st Earth/New Earth; 1st Adam/2nd Adam). If God authors a 2nd version of His Word, the same will be true of it.
But wait, maybe in a way, He has already started. 2Cor 3:2-3 says that our transformed lives are letters of Christ, are trophies of God's grace (Ephes. 2:7)
Revelation 20:12 talks about books that contain all the deeds people have done. Unbelievers are judged by these books. Perhaps these books also contain our story. Maybe we will study them, discovering how God worked through ALL the events in our life, good and terrible, to protect us, bring us to Himself, and showcase His grace. And then, after we have just begun to understand God's goodness, we will hear other people's stories about how God did the same thing in their lives.
Maybe, just maybe, WE are one of the books in God's sequel."
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