The Message
We understand the world through stories -- the stories we read every day, the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the world, the stories we tell our children to help them learn how to be in the world. Stories guide us, they teach us, they shape us.
So it makes sense that Jesus would come and tell stories, teaching people about God. Jesus was trying to teach them, is trying to teach us, about a God that exists outside of time and space. God doesn't experience reality the same way that we do. So God entered into our story so that we could learn about the author of our story. Jesus used stories to point to God, to highlight certain characteristics of God -- none of the stories capture perfectly every aspect of God. Such a feat would be impossible.
But Jesus was a storyteller, telling us about the author of every story, living in the midst of the greatest story ever told. We are leaning into that, trying to find our place in it, desperate to understand what the next chapter is, listening for the storyteller to whisper the words into our hearts so that we might know what is on the other side of this page.
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