Stick With The Story

I remembered those early years of my life when I love to read storybooks. I was a naughty boy last time and I even stole books from my school library to read at home because I didn’t want to trouble my parents to buy them. I read a lot. I read while watching TV, I read during the commercials, I read whenever I am not doing anything, I read before I go to bed and after I wake up.



If you have read a story book before you will know the excitement you get, the anticipation that hooks you onto every page. You will want to continue to read until the story ends because it is just so thrilling. Some of my favorite story books are The Adventures of Hardy Boys about two young men who embarks of adventures after adventures filled with mysteries. I can hardly put down the book once I started. I love The Famous Five as well, really good stuff.

Sometimes we read what we do not want to read.

We follow the story and suddenly it takes an unexpected turn and your favorite character dies or a plot was foiled or someone dear to you in the story gets kidnapped and killed. The story will bring us where ever she wants us to go. Sometimes I felt so eager to know the ending I cheated and read the last few pages, skipping the whole story and getting to the end, then coming back to where I stopped. It pains our heart to read about things that saddened us in the story.

Sometimes we have the urge to skip.

You will come to a point in a story book where you can’t bear the anticipation anymore, when you are silently yelling, “I need to know what happens next… NOW!” The urge gets stronger and stronger and finally you give in and skip all remaining parts and read the last few pages or maybe just glance through to see whether the main character survives or not or whether it closes with a happy ending or not. Have you done that before? I have to admit I do but not always.

The power lies in the pen of the Author.

Reading a story book will either make your day or break it. If a story does not end the way you wanted it to, you will definitely curse the author for not being kind hearted. You did not want this person to die, but the author killed him. You did not expect them to get away with the crime, but the author willed it. In a story book, you are the audience and sometimes the story itself, and the author is god.

Sometimes we feel like changing the story.

I read through some story books and I have the imagination to create my own story out of the one I am reading. I just do not like some parts the author wrote and feel like changing it to suit my liking. However I always end up continue reading the story book and finishing it.

We just want to fast-forward every minute of our life and to skip all those scary parts and unwanted parts of our story. It is a painful journey to go through and life sucks in a lot of area. Things do not go the way we want it to be. I am sure many of us would want to fast-forward from our muddy situation right now and many would want to change our story.

But when we learn to trust God knowing that He is the Author, we have nothing to fear. The story will end the way God wills it to be and not the way we want it to be. If we would only allow God to come into our life and every situation, we would have a beautiful story to tell the world. And rest assure that your ending, in whatever way, shape or form, will be a beautiful one. Your ending will complete the story written even before you were born.

Do not skip the pages of life.

Stick with the Story.

Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord.

Both pictures in this post taken by me =)