God's a better author.

i came across a tweet from kevin roose
(author of the unlikely disciple) about
a relatively prominent theologian who
was recently outed for embellishing his
past and his testimony.

who it was isn't important,
but the message behind it is.

i think this is just another example
of we, as fallen humans, being completely
unsatisfied with God's authority--
or at the very least, doubting it.

God wrote us all amazing and beautiful lives--
with better plots, conflicts, characters, resolutions, etc,
than we could ever write ourselves.

sure, of course, there are things in my past
i am ashamed of. there are things in my more
recent past as someone trying to live for Jesus
that i am ashamed of too. (i guess now would be
an appropriate time to apologize to dining services
for the candy i eat while waiting in line to
weigh and pay--sorry.)

but in all seriousness,
those things we are really and truly ashamed of,
those things we want to "write out,"
God's got a completely beautiful reason for why
we fell there.

and those things we feel like are okay, but would be
more "testimonial" if we amplified them a little bit,
God's got big things planned in our lives
that will completely dwarf them in comparison.

God existed before time, and wrote that.
he transcribed the time line we show up on for an
infinitesimally insignificant amount of time,
but filled our lives with significance.

He drew the earth, and the stars, and flowers, and mankind.

and if you need His credibility within the discipline of writing,
He wrote the best selling book.
of any book.
of all time.
ever.

bottom line,
God's a much better author than we are.
Let Him do His thing.