Your story, and my story, they were meant to cross paths with God’s story.

And with that, Abraham packs up, gets his wife Sarah and nephew Lot ready, and they begin following God to the land of Canaan with everyone else.

What if the most important question about the story of Noah and the great flood isn’t whether God flooded the entire world or not. What if we should have been asking the question, “What does this story actually tell us about who God is?”

There’s more to this life than meets the eye and seeking out pleasure isn’t going to make you feel any less empty inside, and trying to pretend that we can ignore shortcomings in the world around us wont make them go away. It’s Resurrection that gives us hope.

Instead of running, they put aside their freedom knowing that even behind bars they’re free with Jesus and with this the Jailor realizes he needs some of that too.

Maybe it’s the prayer of healing for our enemies that ends up being the best thing that could happen to us.

Life isn’t about what’s happening around us or to us. Life is about how Jesus resurrection-shapes the chaos embattling us.