Today's Journey
Tell Me The Story
"All these things happened to them as examples and . . . for our admonition." 1 Corinthians 10:11
Now that I have grandkids, I’m back into the classic children’s Bible
stories. Wide-eyed stories like David and Goliath, Noah’s ark, and
Jonah and the big fish quickly capture a child’s imagination!
But there’s a danger here—not with the stories themselves but rather
with our attitude toward them. If we view them simply as kids’ stories,
kind of like the Grimm’s Fairy Tales of the Bible, we miss the point.
The stories of the Bible were never meant to be outgrown. There are
profound lessons to be learned from the amazing accounts of those who
faced giants, floods, and fish!
Hundreds of years after the fact, the apostle Paul explained that the
things that happened to Moses and the Israelites as they wandered
through the desert “happened to them as examples, and they were written
for our admonition” (1 Cor. 10:11).
These stories are about us. They mirror the tensions we face daily as
we too seek to apply God’s will and ways to the realities of our lives.
They teach us of the treachery of sin, our desperate need to trust God
unflinchingly, and the importance of staying faithful and true to Him
regardless of what happens.
Don’t ignore the old stories. You might be surprised what God wants to teach you through them.
We learn the blessed Word of God
To fix it firmly in our heart,
And when we act upon that Word
Its truth from us will not depart. —D. De Haan
To fix it firmly in our heart,
And when we act upon that Word
Its truth from us will not depart. —D. De Haan
Stories from the past can give us pointers for the present.
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