Fight your sin with a storyline. I mean right now. Life is war, even
on Saturday. Submerged temptations lie waiting for you just out of
sight. Insidious sirens are faintly wooing your way, beckoning you to
cruise their waters. You will hear their calls soon enough. This is a
plea to steer clear of them from the helm of a story — your story.
I say “your story,” but I mean God’s doing, as we see it in his Book.
All About Action
The Bible is no mere moral code or a set of principles, though it
does include these. It’s neither a textbook, nor mainly a philosophy for
life. Instead, the Bible is a “transcript” of God’s action in the world, all centered on Jesus Christ, who is the apex of his glory.
The Bible is the dramatic script of God’s doing. It tells
God’s authoritative story, which we read as audience, and in which we
participate as characters. God has been at work from the beginning, and he is at work today, in our day.
When we have this kind of vision — when we know what God is doing in
Scripture and in the pages of our lives — it exposes the turmoil of
temptation and the sinking-ship mess of sin. When we see what has really
happened, and what is really happening, the storyline of our identity
is put to work on the battle lines of our holiness. That is the tactic
Paul uses in 1 Corinthians 6. Continue at Jonathan Parnell
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