What Story Are You Writing With Your Life?

What makes a good story?  In the movie, “Rocky”, the first 45 minutes of it is spent building up the character of “Rocky”.  He is shown doing good deeds, being kind and being an all-around nice guy. This is done so that when the fight scene comes, we cheer, hoot and holler for him.  We are given a glimpse of his true character, so that when he wins, we are thrilled. If he had been a mean spirited person, then we would not have cared how the story ended. 

What kind of story are you writing with your life? Is it filled with scenes where the audience would hoot and holler for you?   Our story is written by not only our actions, but our reactions, and our words.  Just like in a fictional book where the characters take on a mind of their own and do what they please, instead of what the author desires, we do too.  However, the author can highlight and delete and rewrite the story. Unlike the author, God does not highlight and delete when we are writing our story and allow us to redo the scene.  But, fortunately, God does give us mercy and grace to go forward writing our story and improve the subsequent scenes.  He also supplies us with all the tools that we need in order to live a great story.  However, just knowing where the tools are, (the Bible), and what they are, (His power through the Holy Spirit), isn’t enough.  We have to implement them into our lives.

Let’s imagine a scene where you are in the mist of doing a grandiose deed for someone. However, you are showing disrespect and spewing venomous words at them while you’re accomplishing the good deed.  Your actions may have been caused by frustration, but no spiritual fruit is manifested which totally negates everything.   Again, would the audience hoot and holler for you and give you accolades for the deed that you accomplish?  No, your Rocky scene would have been booed.

 There are positive and negative charges set off by us that have a profound effect on those around us which reveal our true heart and character. They have the ability to either completely ruin the story or cause applause.  Who cares about the good deed if verbal vomit is being spewed at someone while getting there?   Let’s all try to create uplifting scenes with our lives.  Ones that blow our audience away with the spiritual fruit that we display, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control.  Whoa, what a beautiful love story we have the ability to create with our lives if we will truly tap into the source, Jesus Christ, and use the power of the Holy Spirit to help us write it. Otherwise, your story is one that the audience would rather walk out on.