[Discoveries] 08-11-08 Building the Kingdom with our stories -- Acts 1:8

[Inspiration in Your Inbox]

/*... you will be My witnesses. -- Acts 1:8*/

What does a witness do? He tells what he saw -- or, more likely, what he 
experienced. As we head into our world, we carry with us a powerful 
Kingdom building tool, the story of what we have experienced.

God means to be experienced. That's one reason why life is so full of 
adventure. The waves rise. The thunder rolls. We sit in the bow of our 
little boat and start sliding down into the trough. Then we notice the 
hole in the hull. From there things go from bad to worse as we discover 
that the life jackets have been blown overboard. And (did I mention?) we 
don't know how to swim.

Adventure, of course, is just a fancy word for problems. Every time we 
get another problem, God is writing another story in our lives. We are 
His witnesses. We tell our world what we have experienced -- how God 
showed up in the midst of our problems.

Like Jesus said, if we don't do it, the rocks will cry out.

No matter how obscure you feel, or how mundane you feel your 
difficulties are, God is fashioning in your life a story that will touch 
someone else for eternity.

Be encouraged!
Dwight


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