humanity

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob; stories that are full of humanity.  There is romance, betrayal, mystery, sibling rivalry, faithfulness and wonderment.  It is the story of God at work in the life of people.  It could be our story.  Abraham was chosen to be a blessing to the nations.  Is that not true of us as well?  We hear and we obey.  We ignore God's preferred future.  We confess and are forgiven.  God Blesses and we rejoice.  We fall and we get back up.  God offers renewal....sometimes we accept and sometimes we reject.  It is two steps forward and one step back and still there is God; encouraging, wooing, blessing, forgiving.  We wonder how these men could be such mess-ups and then we consider our own faltering, halting, staggering witness; our successes and our failures.  This is our story....a story still being written of God's unfailing love as he seeks to perfect us by the power of his sacrifice and his unrelenting grace.