Stepping Into a New Narrative

Well, here we are in the Christmas season. We celebrate, of course, Jesus being born to become a man, God with us, to accomplish our redemption at the cross and to be raised from the dead to have it fully effective. Redemption is simply that expensive word that means someone covers our hit. Someone pays for our release, for our freedom, once and for all. He did that. But then there is an ongoing redemption, to offset or override the bad effect. And that's so good. 

He's constantly in our lives rewriting the story, to change the narrative from where it was going to the beauty we are going to step into.

My newest book, On My Worst Day, came out in November. And if you don't have it, it's blowing up in New Hampshire. I mean, come on. You may not be able to get it soon. Anyway, get On My Worst Day. The very last of these 40 new stories that we added talks about my best day. I've had some really good days and I would define a good day as, “Man, I didn't want it to end. It was incredible. It had all the right stuff.” I got to see Kofax pitch, for example, a number of times. That's a good day. During my watch on earth, I got to have warm buttermilk pie, and that can't be undone. It’s a good day, whenever you're having warm buttermilk pie. 

And then there are great days. And I kind of subjectively defined those as meaningful days, as days that you've done something that really benefited the human race and the Gospel. And so I put down in the book one of my great days was when I saved a dear friend from drowning in a river. That was a meaningful day. That man has grown up to be someone very special to a lot of people. So that's a really great day. 

But what would a “best day” be? I think instead of On My Worst Day, that the next book I'm going to write will be On My Best Day. 

What would a “best day” be? Wouldn't it be taking a “worst day” and redeeming it?

Long after you'd thought that there was any hope that it could happen, that's exactly what your Jesus is doing. Every single moment of every single day, He is redeeming, restoring, and reworking the molecules of the events of your worst day. He is taking the tragedy, and the ugliness and the sickness. He is taking a “worst day” and moving it into a redeemed day where the bad effect is offset and a new narrative is written. That's what He's doing in every single one of us all day long, every day, He never fails at it. Sometimes it takes a long, long time. For me, in the book, it took half a century. 

Well, I love to think about that as we are coming close to Christmas. I hope this hits you beautifully, and I hope you have a wonderful season.

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