What is your story?

from www.readersdigest.co

     This Memorial Day weekend marks the last installment in our series based on The Story, which we have been reading through as a congregation this past year. The journey has given us a good, overall look at scripture in chronological order from Genesis through Revelation, and we will be doing a re-cap of the overall theme of scripture.
     It was difficult to choose just one passage of scripture that gets to the heart of the whole, but I settled on a lovely passage from Ephesians 2. For me, it is the perfect marriage of the whole of scripture, Old and New Testsaments, law and gospel, judgement and grace. You see, as I read and think of scripture on the whole, the common thread is all about God's love and grace for creation.

But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. 

For now there is really little more to say - for what can you add to such wonderful news? God loves us - even in our broken lives - and sent Christ to give life, an act of grace, so that we might forever know God's riches.

     The mystery this leaves me pondering this week has everything to do with the tagline from The Story, which thanks to Max Lucado goes like this:
This is your story. This is my story. This is the greatest story ever told.

So how is this your story? How is this the greatest story for you? What part of scripture best speaks to where you are in your own journey? The beautiful news for all of us is that in Christ, the eternal Word of God, all of creation is saved. The mystery is, how then will we live?