Loaves and Fishes

The main thing we have been focusing on during Cornerstone College is the matter of our stories. We have been focusing on the fact that each of us have a story, a journey that we have been traveling. Now, we have each met, and our stories are being intertwined by the grand author.

God has really been showing me how important our stories actually are. For instance, David. A boy who was only about fifteen when he killed the giant Goliath, was living out his story. Then there's Paul (originally Saul), who used to slaughter and persecute Jews and then was transformed into a man who had an enormous impact on the church and how it works today. We can even look as far back as Moses, who was a man who had an alleged speech impediment who came to lead the Israelites out of slavery. For those of us from the female gender, we have great women like Ruth, and Mary, and Sarah, who followed the will of God and lived out their own stories of greatness.

All of these people had a story. A background. But is their story any greater than ours?

Jeremiah 1:5 says that God knew us before he placed us in the womb. He knows our ways, our thoughts, our passions. He set us apart.

Therefore, God knew me before I was born, and he knew you before you were born, and he knew Jeremiah, and Jonah, and Peter, and everyone else before they were born. Our stories are unique. Hand-made. Special.

Jeremiah 29 then goes into the plans that God has for us, prosperity and hope are included in those plans. He has plans like that specially made for each one of us. Another part of our story.

Now I am at a place, being 20 and in college, where I am coming face to face with my story and how the Masterful Author is intertwining it with the people I am walking my journey with. God is shaping each and every one of our stories in accordance to His will.

Our stories are special. God is the most talented of authors.