Author John Eldredge in his book Epic writes:
Life, you'll notice, is a story.
Life doesn't come to us like a math problem. It comes to us the way that a story does, scene by scene. You wake up. What will happen next? You don't get to know - you have to enter in, take the journey as it comes. The sun might be shining. There might be a tornado outside. Your friends might call and invite you to go sailing. You might lose your job.
Life unfolds like a drama. Doesn't it? Each day has a beginning and an end. There are all sorts of characters, all sorts of settings. A year goes by like a chapter from a novel. Sometimes it seems like a tragedy. Sometimes like a comedy. Most of it feels like a soap opera. Whatever happens, it's a story through and through.
Although you no longer have control over what has been written in your story up until today, what has been written doesn't necessarily have to dictate what will be written.
When you stand before the Almighty, what do you hope will be read aloud in the story that was your life? What will you give up in order to make that story happen?
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