The Israelites spent 40 years wandering in the desert instead of entering the Promised Land. Sometimes there are “viruses” that can get us off track and keep us wandering in circles instead of heading in the direction that God wants to take our lives.
God’s plan continues to unfold as He establishes some requirements for Him to dwell among His people: Live by a set of rules (the Ten Commandments) A place to live (the Tabernacle) A way to restore the relationship (the sacrifice system)
God’s people spent 430 years in Egypt, and went from 70 people when they arrived, to a nation of over a million people. They also went from being a people with connections and privilege to a nation of slaves. As they cried out to God for deliverance, He heard them and sent Moses to deliver…
Sometimes life throws us a curve ball. We have our dreams and plans, but things go completely wrong. At least that’s how it looks from our Lower Story perspective. Even in those moments, God is with us, and His Upper Story plan and purpose is not derailed by the difficulties we face in life.
God chooses unlikely people to accomplish His plans. Abraham and Sarah might not have made our list of likely candidates to start a new nation, but God often does things in ways that makes it clear that success is dependent on Him, not on the people He chooses. The gives great hope to us, as…
This is the very beginning of The Story. Join us as we kick off our series looking into how God’s Upper Story and the Lower Story of History contained in the Bible relates to Our story here and now.
