“Pages”
A turning
Our world is full of books, with a lot of pages. Many of us love to read, page by page. Some read fast and some read slow. Some read slow when they should read fast and some read fast when they should read slow. Some read fiction and some read true stories. Some read fiction that seems it could be true. Than some read truth that sounds like fiction. Fiction should be all fiction and truth should be all truth. Some read fiction and believe it as truth and some read truth and believe it is fiction. If I read fiction, it had better be pure fiction, so I don’t mix it up with truth.
Life is sort of like a book, it has many pages. Some are made up, kind of like fiction and some are pure truth. Times, days and seasons are like pages in a book. All, like pages, have to be turned to see what’s on the next page. Some we turn willingly and some by the hardest and some we never want to turn. Some say, if tomorrow is going to be like today, I don’t want to see it. For some, pages in the past were so bad that thinking of tomorrow is frightening.
God said that all our names are written down in a book in heaven. Does that mean just there or does it mean here in the earth also? I believe that means here also.
Most people initially believe that life is a fiction and we make it up as we go. All children know what they want to be in life when born. When they voice it, what do we do? We say, no you don’t need to do that, you need to do what your father or mother does. Is that fiction or truth.? We might say, that doesn’t pay enough money, fiction. That knowing inside us was in our spirit, placed there by God Himself. What we should have done, is help encourage their call and help them to get the credentials to do it. One might start his book in fiction, while another starts his in truth. I would dare to say, most start in fiction. Most of us struggled in a life of fiction until we came face to face with the truth.
Some pages are hard to turn because we love today and tomorrow may change it. But what of the book in heaven and earth? Most of our troubles came in our fictional life. When new birth comes, truth comes with it, because Jesus is truth. Many times our past life and it’s troubles, lead us to the truth by the hardest and sometimes what we heard about Him lead us there. Either way, we got there.
Our names were written down in a book called “life”, long before we were born in the earth. While living here, it was already written there. What was written there was the perfect. Here in this fallen world we struggle to enter the fullness of the book, “Life”.
We have been given a truth to live by. “All things work together for good, for those called according to His purpose”. That means the pages, yesterday, today and tomorrow. That kind of reminds us of God, “God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow”. Doesn’t that sound interesting? Do you mean we were born into that? Will God make us the same way? He said “When the complete and perfect comes, the incomplete will pass away”. Each page in our book is when the complete and perfect comes, embeds a truth and a page turns. Our future life book is full of pages, some we have seen, the ones we see today and the unknown tomorrow. If we walk in truth, we must know that tomorrow is already written. No matter what comes, it will work for good. He is God of tomorrow. Knowing this, causes us to be excited about tomorrow and not fear it. Fear causes us to walk in fiction, making it up as we go. Jesus said,”Fear not for I am with you”. What better body guard could we have?
I’ll tell you a fictional story that is embedded in truth. Jesus called them parables. There were two trapeze artist, each on a swing. One’s name we will call Catch and the other is called Release. They are swinging, Catch says to Release, “Let go and i’ll catch you”. Release says, “That’s fiction, I’ll fall and die”. Catch says, “The only way you are going to get over here, is to release and trust me. I will catch you”. To Release fiction and fear became the same person. Then, fiction thought about yesterday’s page and with exhaustion, released, Catch caught him and said “Didn’t I tell you the truth”. Page turned.
PS: Fiction is now, truth is tomorrow. Or rather the next page. Turn the page.
David McClary
