There’s nothing I enjoy more than spending time with a story by reading it. This activates my mind to paint the story in light of what my imagination defines. I can change the surroundings as new details emerge.
Listening to a story is only a close second if there’s nothing else to do. (I cannot do Audio Books while driving.)
Watching a story? It’s often about someone else’s varied imagination, and I’m often disappointed with the results.
When reading, I can jump past the unsavory aspects, but when listening or watching? You are stuck!
In my younger years, I hid my favorite book inside a textbook and pretended to do what the rest of the class did. A Book was always in my hands, by my side, and often stuffed into my pocket.
In today’s sense of story, I’m often more enthralled with the writers of my youth and younger years. Whether they are science fiction, history, or even for knowledge, writers of the yesteryear generation told stories at a different pace.
Maybe that’s the key to my sense of story.
One nameless modern writer starts a new chapter every two pages. What? Where’s my depth of story here? On the other hand, James Michener wrote nearly 150 pages describing how the Hawaiian islands formed!
I love for a story to unfold into a final thought. It’s a stopping point that makes sense. Yes. There will be add-on stories to take us into the future, but every story has a logical stopping point.
Long before there was a New Testament, if we are to learn anything about God’s plan, we find it in the Old Testament. After the resurrection, Jesus begins with Moses and the prophets to describe his own life.
And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets,
He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
(Luke 24:27 NKJV)
Where did his story end? As a closing of the Old Testament (remember, there is no New Testament yet), Jesus dies on the cross.
So when Jesus had received the sour wine,
He said, “It is finished!”
And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
(John 19:30 NKJV)
The Greek Word for this phrase (It Is Finished) is a word of Completion. In Commerce, it says the transaction commitment has been completed. At the end of a prison sentence, it indicates Time has been served. In battle, the final skirmish has been fought.
In other words, Jesus says he has finished and completed everything the Old Testament prophesied about Him being the Final Sacrifice.
Now, that’s the story!
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