The past few weeks I've been reading all the George Knight I can get my hands on. He was a seminary professor of mine 15 years ago and "the" Adventist church historian of this generation.
I've always liked history (and even majored in it). But now my motivation has become more personal. I want to know how my own little life might fit in the broader sweep of earth's history. I want to understand how God's Big Narrative includes even "grass" that is born green today and dies brown tomorrow.
God invited us into the Big Story of creation: "be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth, create!"
Then, sin.
And so God invited us into the Big (amended) Story of redemption: "bless the world, salt the world, brighten the corner where you are, tell about Jesus and his love and his sure salvation."
We are part of what God has been up to since the beginning of Earth Time.
After sin is over, we will still be in the Big, Big Story. It will just be the drama of Creation rather than the drama of Redemption.
More exciting, not less.
In the mean time, I want to know how my brief walk on this planet connect to history and to the future. How do I honor the past? How to do equip future generations for the journey God has in mind for them?
How do I gain the humility to see that my life is not "the deal" but instead I find meaning and value in a much larger storyline?
