Every book closes with the same two words; the end. If that book is only a part of a series it will usually give the title of the next installment or some teaser. Unfortunately, many people think the same of The Bible. They say it’s just another story in an old book. This tale from a place far away set in a time long ago. That is not true. There is no end of the “story.”
The Old Testament ends in Malachi 2:15 with another foretelling of the coming of Jesus and the last warning of the fate of those who turn away from the Lord. The New Testament ends the same way; in Revelation 22 Paul writes about the source of life as shown to him by an angel of the Lord. The last verse in The Bible is a blessing on believers: “The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.” (Revelation 22:21) That is not an ending. Because the story of God does not end in between those covers. It continues on in each and every one of us. Because He is the One who has written our stories.
A common misconception is that you have to be doing something special or be in a special or a certain place to hear the Lord. That is also false. The Lord did call Moses to climb Mount Sinai so He could give him the Ten Commandments. Throughout the Bible, there are many examples of The Lord reaching out to His children anywhere and everywhere. In Judges 6:11; The Angel of the Lord sits under an Oak tree to talk to Gideon.
Under an Oak tree, now isn’t that somewhere you can see yourself, just hanging out after a hot day? Now most people probably don’t find themselves threshing wheat like Gideon was when the Angel came to sit. As scholars can best tell, Judges was written in 550 BC. So that means that the Lord has been reaching out to His children for 2,565 years. He sent His ambassador to meet Gideon somewhere he was every day.
Acts 9 tells the story of Saul’s encounter with Christ on the road to Damascus. To give a little back story; Saul was the biggest persecutor of the Church at that time. He was traveling to Damascus to arrest any men and women that were talking about Christ. This not so average Joe was just walking down the road when there was a flash of light and Jesus started to talk to him. Acts 9 verses 19-20 say: “Saul was with the disciples in Damascus for some days. Immediately he began proclaiming Jesus in the synagogues; “He is the Son of God.” Jesus spoke to this man on the road and radically changed his life! How many times in the last week have you been on a road?
I reminded you of those stories to show you how God has come to meet his children wherever they are in their day. You don’t have to be somewhere special like Moses was on Mount Sinai to hear the Lord. You don’t have to be in a certain place like a church or a religious gathering to hear from the Lord. You can be sitting under a tree like Gideon or walking down the road like Saul and the Lord will speak to you. For Gideon, it took a few after he heard from the Lord to start acting on it. Saul, he heard one and man did he run with it!
The Lord is in your everyday, it may just take some time or a few repetitions for you to see it more clearly. The Bible is the “story’ the Lord left for us, so we could know Him. You are also His story. He has written out your entire life. That is why The Bible does not have a “the end” His story continues in you. He is in your every day because He is the writer of your story.
