The Story of My Life

How often do you look at your circumstances and respond with emotions of hopelessness and despair? Your circumstances are but the trappings; your real life occurs in the Lord. Your history does not consist of a record of things that have happened to you in the physical world. Your history is written upon the heart of God, and consists of milestones of your faith in Him.

The memory of your own earthbound history shifts and changes because you see the past through the lens of your limited human mind. So long as you stand in time rather than outside of it, your perspective will be thus limited. Furthermore, your mind is influenced by an ever-changing tide of emotion. This emotion influences your memories of past events and causes your perception of your own time line to be even less accurate.

The history of your life that is Really Real, that is worth recording and talking about and saving, are the events of your spiritual life; your life hid with Christ in God. Just as the recounting of the Israelites' history stayed the same each time the story was told throughout the Bible, the history of your life in the Lord has not changed over the years.

Record the events of your life in the Lord. When did you first know Jesus, first become aware of the miracle of the Holy blood spilled for you? When did you accept Him into your heart as Lord and Savior? How did you come to experience the Holy Spirit Comforter, and what path led you to know Christ in you, the hope of glory? What promises have been fulfilled, what anointings bestowed? Record these and view them as your reality. Teach them to your children. Rest on the certainty of God's promises. He has not failed you. He will not fail you.

Scripture: Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. Deuteronomy 4:9