Tuesday, March 6, 2018

JOHN Good Morning! I’m John Branning, the Lead Pastor of Central United Methodist Church. God has written each of us into His story. We are part of something far greater than ourselves. God calls upon us to trust Him to weave that story together, so that, in the end that will never end, we will worship Him, slack-jawed at the sheer genius of His interwoven plot lines. But like the fictional characters in a novel who are clueless to the authors strategies, we lack the perspective to see how parts of our lives fit into God’s overall plan. Cancer, disabilities, accidents, and other losses and sorrows appear devastatingly pointless. How can these moments bring any good to our story or the story of God? Romans 8:28 says: “We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” Our part in this story is to trust the one that has created us in his image. The God that has come searching for us and to realize that when our story doesn’t look like a fairytale, that our God can make something wonderful from it.