How do you remember God’s story?

Auto-generated transcript. It may contain mistakes.

How do you remember God's story? And I'm not talking about the Bible here. I'm talking about the story that God's been telling in our lives. For example, in my story, I remember being a weird kid, not really invited to birthday parties. I felt like I was just doing life alone. But, is that the story that God remembers? For example, if we look at the story of Moses, what do we remember about him? He shared he was a poor communicator, slow of speech and tongue, but also when God asked him to do something special, he resisted and shared all the reasons why it wouldn't work. To the point where he said to God, "Please, send someone else." But, if we go over to the New Testament, after Jesus came, there's this guy named Stephen who's retelling the story, and he says something very interesting. The Bible says Stephen shared Moses was educated in all wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action. Is that how we remember Moses? Powerful in speech and action? In the last few days we've been talking about how after Moses resisted in this back-and-forth with God, saying, "Please, send someone else." God ends up sending Moses' brother Aaron with him so that Moses would feel comfortable and still go. But, Aaron is the one communicating and performing the signs on behalf of God, which is originally what he wanted Moses to do. So, how is Moses powerful in speech and action? Well, as you continue through the story, it does say God said to Moses, "Tell Aaron." So, Aaron is doing these things. But, as Moses gets comfortable and sees God move a little bit, there is this shift in scripture where God tells Moses to go and confront Pharaoh. And then God told Aaron and Moses that he wanted Moses for one of the signs to pick up the soot and throw it, starting one of the signs on behalf of God. And then from that point on, there is no more tell Aaron. God has Moses talk to Pharaoh. God has Moses perform the signs. To the point that we get to the last sign where the Bible says the Lord made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, the ones that God is setting free through Moses, and Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh's officials and by the people. Doesn't that sound a little bit more like powerful in speech and action? Now, I'm glad that the Bible left where Moses shared all of his deficiencies, cuz that's what I can relate to. That's what I remember about my story. But, there's this book that's very interesting that talks about this concept of what we remember. It's called The Gap and the Gain by Dan and The stuff that I remember that I lacked, that I was missing, the book says that is defined as the gap. But if I look at the perspective of the good things that happened because of it, how it was used, that is the gain. Gap, what's missing. Gain, the good. So when we're looking at our story, it can be easy to remember the things that were horrible. But as I was studying today, I realized that even saying our story is the gap, because it's not our story. It's God's story. God is telling the best story ever told. That is the gain perspective. And so today, instead of remembering the gap, I'd love to hear from you. One good thing you remember from God's story, the story he's telling in your life. Let's be grateful today, friends. God bless.