EPIC
(Part 2)
Two weeks
ago we left off discovering how God in His greatness has given us the
opportunity to fulfill our role in this journey called our life that He has
created for us. We have a place in the epic of God’s story and as we closed out
the last article we were looking at 1 John 1 as the great apostle shared with
us how he personally knew the Lord Jesus Christ. His experience was one that he
wanted to share with those whom he knew and subsequently to all of us that have
had the privilege of reading this passage throughout history. In my message two
weeks ago attached to this topic, we also saw how we have fellowship with the
Father and the Son through our receiving God’s gift of salvation. The outcome
is found in 1 John 1:4 where John states “And we are writing these things so
that our joy may be complete.”
As we pick
up this theme of us blending into God’s story it is imperative we understand
that as we fit into His plans, God gives us tools to live by. In John 15:11, we
read “These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that
your joy may be full.” It is a given that we receive God’s joy by believing and
trusting in His Son. In the previous verses in the 15th chapter of the gospel
of John, we read how Jesus uses the metaphor “I am the true vine”. One of the
things that was and is still a common sight in
As the Epic
of God or, in other words, the history of humanity has unfolded there are many
times that God has had to do some pruning. Individually in people such as Moses
and Peter and at times collectively as we see in the Jewish nation of
As we “make
God’s joy complete” by fulfilling our God given destiny, as His children we must
stay connected to Him so our role in His Epic story continues. In verse 9 Jesus
says; “Abide in my love”. That is how we are nourished. Otherwise, as so many
in the past, present, and in the future, they will never play a role in God’s
story because they didn’t know the Gardener.
By:
Pastor David Jones