{"id":38836,"date":"2026-01-08T22:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38836"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:06:34","slug":"260109-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260109-story\/","title":{"rendered":"More to Your Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Everything changes when you know the rest of your story. In 2 Samuel 22:25 (MSG) David says, \u201cGod rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes<\/strong>.\u201d But what is the text of our lives? Self-help gurus and magazine headlines urge you to \u201cfind your narrative.\u201d \u201cLook inside yourself,\u201d they say. But the promise of self-discovery falls short.<\/p>\n

Your story indwells God\u2019s. This is the great promise of the Bible. \u201cIt\u2019s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for.<\/strong> Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone\u201d (Ephesians 1:11-12 MSG). In his story, you\u2019ll find there\u2019s more to\u00a0your<\/em>\u00a0story.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Read more\u00a0When God Whispers Your Name<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everything changes when you know the rest of your story. In 2 Samuel 22:25 (MSG) David says, \u201cGod rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.\u201d But what is the text of our lives? Self-help gurus and magazine headlines urge you to \u201cfind your narrative.\u201d \u201cLook inside yourself,\u201d they say. But the promise of self-discovery falls short.<\/p>\n

Your story indwells God\u2019s. This is the great promise of the Bible. \u201cIt\u2019s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone\u201d (Ephesians 1:11-12 MSG). In his story, you\u2019ll find there\u2019s more to your story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38841,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38836\/revisions\/38841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}