What Will Be the Story of Your Life?

Have you ever considered the thought of what the story of your life will be? I have to admit that it is one that often invades my thoughts with some regularity. The question should not be one that we should fear or run away from. It’s a question that quite honestly helps bring us to a place of resolve and greater focus. It’s easy to see things in hindsight because it has already occurred. Yet, in some respect, God tells us that our lives are already written and we’re merely being invited to walk out the life we’ve been invited to live. This does not eliminate our ability to choose. It’s our opportunity to remind Satan that no matter what gets thrown our way, he is already defeated.

You’re Born to Beat the Odds

So many people take for granted the level of odds that had to be overcome just to enter into this life that we live. God has strategically arranged time and circumstances for each of us to have the parents we have, the time in which we’re living, and so much more. Think of the millions of seeds that travel to reach the egg that fertilized and became the you that you are. You beat the millions of others that could have been. Then, life and culture, and personal experience helped to shape and give context and a frame of reference so that you could uniquely express God’s glory in a way that only you’d be able to do it.

Knowing that from conception you’ve had this “beat the odds” ability as a part of your DNA, should cause you to become excited and encouraged to defy the odds when they are presented. I know that it can be difficult at times. I’ve faced those same challenges. Yet, God is often reminding me of the truth which dispels the lies that I sometimes fall prey to. When I am reminded of what is in my DNA, I am able to rise up to be who it is that God said I am. You’re able to do this as well.

You’re Born to be More than a Conqueror

The story of our lives should be one that lets people acknowledge that we are more than a conqueror (Romans 8:37). Paul the apostle says this of us as believers. The Greek word “hypernikaō,” the term “more than a conqueror” is translated from means that we gain a “surpassing or decisive victory, to vanquish beyond.” The story of our lives is meant to show everyone that in spite of all that we go through, we not only lived a victorious and winning life; our lives are to reveal a rewarded life.

Paul speaks of this in terms of sports where he says that we run a race that is not for a corruptible crown of victory but one that is incorruptible. The incorruptible crown is not obtained by simply saying I am saved and I made it to heaven. The incorruptible crown says that I’ve run a race that consisted of occupying until. Don’t be satisfied with a life of just enough to make it in. The glory comes in living a life that says I want there to be a noticeable difference in the world because I lived the life God gave me.

You’re Born to be Different

There is a challenge that we often face because of our differences, and we seek to find commonality with others. The desire to find commonality is not a bad thing but it can get in the way of us fully expressing the uniqueness that God purposed for us to express. As different as one snowflake is from another, and as different as one fingerprint is from another, so too are we to be a distinctly different expression of the image of God.

The glory in your story is found in the difference that you bring to the story God is telling with your life. If you’re simply being a copy or attempting to plagiarize someone else's life, you diminish the work and devalue the worth of the story.

Let the story of your life be fully expressed and known. Show everyone the great thing God designed you to be. The story of your life can inspire others to find their greatness and become the story God intended them to be. That alone is another way that the story of your life increases God's glory.