Our Biography.

Monday, November 29, 2010
Our Biography. Do you have any regrets? Sure you do, we all do. They often say that hindsight is always 20/20. I suppose that’s true. And there have been times in my life that had someone come along and offered me a time machine to go back and undo, or redo decisions I would have jumped at the chance. But I believe I’ve changed my way of thinking a bit in recent days.
I was in kindergarten. We were on the playground, and we were lining up to go inside after recess. There were about 4 other boys standing around with me, all holding rocks. Some of them were throwing them up and catching them. Some of them were preparing to throw them at someone else. One boy was even eating them. Yet there I stood, simply holding a rock. Yet the teacher chose to grab me, take me to the office, call my mother, and paddle me. Did I think it was a great injustice? Of course. Would I have gone back and never have picked up the rock had I known it would lead to this? Of course. Did I learn that there are consequences in life, and the decisions you make bring them regardless of what everyone else around you is doing? Yes.
There are tons of other life lessons and stories that could be shared, but I'll skip ahead for the sake of time...A fast forwarded few years down the road and I’m grown. At this particular page in question I’m sitting in a deep, dark, hard valley. I feel alone. I feel abandoned. I feel ashamed. Had someone come to me and offered me that time machine again, at that particular time I would have jumped on it. I would have gone back in time and never begun that particular relationship. I would have come to that crossroads of decision and steered my wheel in a different direction entirely. Had I known how it would end, it never would have begun. But I would have never been blessed by so many of the bi-products of that chapter, either. The faithfulness of God would have never been quite so real to me, had I not had to trust Him in blind faith as I did in that chapter's ending.
You see, we are all witnessing our biography being written every day. Every experience, whether we label it good or bad, is just another page in another chapter. And whether we want to admit it or not, we are the people that we are today, ultimately, because of the chapters that have already been written.
There are many around us that want theirs to be an auto-biography. They want to do the writing. They want to be in the driver’s seat. They want to be the “masters of their own fate.” Not me. You see, the Author of my biography already knows how it ends. He’s writing everything, daily, with the end in mind. This life of mine is a work of literature for the ages. He already knows the plot, and He’s steering each chapter in the direction of that happy ending He knows awaits me.
So today, remember: you’re living your biography. Someone will read the finished product some day, just as there are curious bystanders watching the work in progress now. Will the pages of your chapters point them to the Author, or just back to yourself? Do you long to be the star of the show, or do you truly want the world to see Him in you? Would you join me today in whole-heartedly giving the pen of this book of life to the Author – and allowing Him free reign in writing this story just as He sees fit?


That’s just a thought, and I welcome yours.
Until next time,
blake

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