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Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Here's a quote from Louis Giglio, in his new book "i am not but i know I AM." The quote comes right after he tells a story about taking a wrong turn while jogging in Manhattan:
"How can you run down the middle of a New York freeway and not know it? I think the same way you can live your entire life completely oblivious to the grand story of the Creator of the universe that is unfolding all around you. The same way you can spend your days making so much of someone as small and transient as you or me, and so little of someone as glorious and eternal as God.
That's why this book is not about you and making your story better, but about waking up to the infinitely bigger God Story happening around you, and God's invitation to you to join Him in it...
The story already has a star, and the star is not you or me...
And here's why it matters--if we don't get the two stories straight, everything else in our lives will be out of sync. We'll spend our days trying to hijack the Story of God, turning it into the story of us. Inverting reality, we'll live every day as though life is all about you and me."
So, for today, what can teenagers actually DO in order to "wake up" to the work of God going on around them so quickly that they don't even notice the story unfolding?
Brent 4:11 AM
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