You are a page in His story.

[Mr E]

Have you ever thought about history in these terms? That there is in a sense, ‘a Great Cosmic Author’ that we call “God” because we don’t really know what else to call Him, or even if calling God a “Him” is entirely proper at all... but there is an Author/Creator/Potter/Artist who is writing His story and you, we... are the pages He is writing on. “We” begin as blank pages, a clean slate and the story of our lives, the different chapters of our lives, the things we say and do and think— these things are as vignettes in that great Book of Life that this Author/Creator is recording.

We see this in scripture, knowing little about this person or that, instead we read from what is essentially a collection of short stories from past lives (from history) that we call ‘scripture.’

But we are only pages in a book that someone else is writing. And are we not like lumps of clay in the hands of a Great Cosmic Potter who takes this clump and molds it, shapes it into a container...a vessel that can be used for some practical purpose. We are the clay that is shaped. We become the vessels to be filled as He should will, for His own purposes.

We are the album that begins empty, to be filled later with snapshots and clippings of our lives and all that becomes of us. Of what we become.

It’s beautiful to consider this. He’s writing a story. And I’m featured in a part of it. He’s shaping clay that is me- and he has a specific purpose in mind.

 

[APAK]

Have you ever thought about history in these terms? That there is in a sense, ‘a Great Cosmic Author’ that we call “God” because we don’t really know what else to call Him, or even if calling God a “Him” is entirely proper at all... but there is an Author/Creator/Potter/Artist who is writing His story and you, we... are the pages He is writing on. “We” begin as blank pages, a clean slate and the story of our lives, the different chapters of our lives, the things we say and do and think— these things are as vignettes in that great Book of Life that this Author/Creator is recording.

We see this in scripture, knowing little about this person or that, instead we read from what is essentially a collection of short stories from past lives (from history) that we call ‘scripture.’

But we are only pages in a book that someone else is writing. And are we not like lumps of clay in the hands of a Great Cosmic Potter who takes this clump and molds it, shapes it into a container...a vessel that can be used for some practical purpose. We are the clay that is shaped. We become the vessels to be filled as He should will, for His own purposes.

We are the album that begins empty, to be filled later with snapshots and clippings of our lives and all that becomes of us. Of what we become.

It’s beautiful to consider this. He’s writing a story. And I’m featured in a part of it. He’s shaping clay that is me- and he has a specific purpose in mind.

His specific purpose in mind for us is beyond our reasoning, beyond this time continuum and space we live and occupy today. We only can know we are doing his will, at times, most of the time, or not that often...

Our ultimate purpose must be mind-blowing after all, beyond our wildest dreams...

 

[Mr E]

His specific purpose in mind for us is beyond our reasoning, beyond this time continuum and space we live and occupy today. We only can know we are doing his will, at times, most of the time, or not that often...

Our ultimate purpose must be mind-blowing after all, beyond our wildest dreams...

 

[Mr E]

Your life is His story... at least a part of it. You're a page in His book, of life.

Your life is His story of His life in you. Christ, in you. You are that formed vessel that was shaped for a purpose, that He poured Himself into and what happened is His story as recorded on that page of that book. You are a page in that book that tells the experience of His life, in you.

The story of this human experience began with His life being breathed into His only begotten son.... the first earthen vessel his monogenes (only genesis) -- Adam... the earth man. Joe Dirt. And the first pages of the first experience of the first man that He poured Himself into starts most appropriately... "In the beginning..."

And it begins the most wonderful of stories-- the struggles, the failures, the triumphs and victories and utter defeats, the good, the bad the ugly, the horrific, the tragic and the beautiful, the love and loss and shame and every crime and consequence and every betrayal and murder and everything ever done. It's beautiful because it's real. It's a real story, not 'based on a true story'-- it's a story that is true.

It's good. It's awfully good. In fact it couldn't be so good if it wasn't so awful. It's real because it's raw and it's the honesty that makes it raw and rare and real and good. Devastatingly good. And it's our story in as much as we are that story... every soul a page, a chapter, a part of His story, His book of life. The rest is still unwritten. What we have to date is voluminous... yet folks focus on what? -- A 66 story book within a book we call the Bible that is nothing more than an album. It's a collection of snapshots. A compilation of stories and songs. It's an album of saints and sinners.

 

[APAK]

Your life is His story... at least a part of it. You're a page in His book, of life.

Your life is His story of His life in you. Christ, in you. You are that formed vessel that was shaped for a purpose, that He poured Himself into and what happened is His story as recorded on that page of that book. You are a page in that book that tells the experience of His life, in you.

The story of this human experience began with His life being breathed into His only begotten son.... the first earthen vessel his monogenes (only genesis) -- Adam... the earth man. Joe Dirt. And the first pages of the first experience of the first man that He poured Himself into starts most appropriately... "In the beginning..."

And it begins the most wonderful of stories-- the struggles, the failures, the triumphs and victories and utter defeats, the good, the bad the ugly, the horrific, the tragic and the beautiful, the love and loss and shame and every crime and consequence and every betrayal and murder and everything ever done. It's beautiful because it's real. It's a real story, not 'based on a true story'-- it's a story that is true.

It's good. It's awfully good. In fact it couldn't be so good if it wasn't so awful. It's real because it's raw and it's the honesty that makes it raw and rare and real and good. Devastatingly good. And it's our story in as much as we are that story... every soul a page, a chapter, a part of His story, His book of life. The rest is still unwritten. What we have to date is voluminous... yet folks focus on what? -- A 66 story book within a book we call the Bible that is nothing more than an album. It's a collection of snapshots. A compilation of stories and songs. It's an album of saints and sinners.

Very insightful. Very keen-minded and a view that is refreshing in our lives and should be for our lives today. You have nailed the idea that the scripture is just a snapshot. We are living vessels and temples of God. We are in him through his son and the son in us. This writes simply and still many really do not understand it, yet. This, your view is a frightening idea to those still learning who is the Son of God and his Father. They have not got past first base yet.

The 'Book of Life' indeed, and we are living it, indelibly, into eternity with our maker!

Great topic...

 

[Mr E]

Very insightful. Very keen-minded and a view that is refreshing in our lives and should be for our lives today. You have nailed the idea that the scripture is just a snapshot. We are living vessels and temples of God. We are in him through his son and the son in us. This writes simply and still many really do not understand it, yet. This, your view is a frightening idea to those still learning who is the Son of God and his Father. They have not got past first base yet.

The 'Book of Life' indeed, and we are living it, indelibly, into eternity with our maker!

Great topic...

Thanks for your kind comments. I do believe that there is much more to this idea and the Book of Life itself.


And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore.
Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten diadems, and on his heads were blasphemous names. And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority. I saw one of his heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast; they worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?” There was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him. And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, that is, those who dwell in heaven. Rev 13:1

It was also given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them, and authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation was given to him. All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain. If anyone has an ear, let him hear. If anyone is destined for captivity, to captivity he goes; if anyone kills with the sword, with the sword he must be killed. Here is the perseverance and the faith of the saints.

The Psalmist writes-- that the wicked will be “blotted out of the book of life.” Ps 69:27-28

Daniel says- everyone who has their name "in the book . . . will be rescued.” Dan 12:1

Luke 10:20
Phil 4:3
Rev 3:5
Rev 20:15

Rev 21:10 begins to describe a city...

I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed; and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it; and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

 

[Mr E]

Everyone who has ever lived has their name written in the book of life. The ‘wicked’ have their names erased from that book, blotted out, as if they never were.

Our aim as Jesus taught, is to remain in the book.