I once heard someone describe this man as the most honest man in the Bible. He doesn't say anything that he doesn't know -- he tells the simple story of what happened to him, and that's it. I love when people are trying to figure out who he is, and they seem to be debating who he is, while he's in the background telling them who he is. Some of them listen, but others are so certain that they know the story that they don't seem interested in what he has to say about his own experience. It's like 21st century social media, only it's lived out 2000 years earlier in real life -- a bunch of people shouting at each other, with many of them ignoring the reality directly in front of them.
If we can have any role in the story, I want to play the role where I tell the simple truth of how Jesus changed my life. Others will hear what they will -- we have to trust the power of the Holy Spirit is active in the hearts and ears and lives of others. We can only tell our story, and how it fits in with the larger story. May we tell our story, and do it well, telling it simply at times, and trusting God with the rest.
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