Is Our Story Too Small?

"Then said I, lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me," Psalm 40:7

Pastor Warner preached a deep sermon Friday night. He reminded us that the Bible is God's story. It is a book about God not us. It is a great story with a beginning, middle, and end. There is a plot, a protagonist, a villain, and a hero. It tells us a far reaching story about God's plan of redemption and Christ coming to do God's will on the cross.

I wonder if maybe we as Pentecostals have made God's story too small.

Some people have a simple answer to the biggest, most complex problems. They play the God card and that solves everything. Except when it doesn't. Always playing the God card only tells us how immature you really are. Besides, if God is the answer for everything, where are the miracles we have heard about?

The Bible is readable and easy to understand because God deals with people throughout history just as He deals with people today. People are people no matter where or when they lived. And God, who is a great story teller, included people in His story to help us understand how God works in history.

There are times in the Bible where God breaks out with words that blow us away. Prophets might see visions of God's grandeur or speak words that are so much greater than their learning or intellect might justify. This is evidence that it was God speaking, not the prophet.

One more thought. God is more than willing to help ignorant and unlearned men and women. As long as we involve ourselves in God's story and God's work we will receive God's help.