Some atheists attack the bible, saying it is full of fiction. The stories of God working in people’s lives are not true, they say. But the stories did not stop with the book of Acts. The biblical canon stopped with the book of Revelation, but the stories of God moving continue on today.
The missionary reports tell of a God who is still at work. Our home bible meetings divulge personal experiences of God moving still. Our own lives are testimonies that Jesus has risen.
Those full of self-effort can’t say with the obedient, believing Christian, “I didn’t do it — the Lord did.” In response to any and all testimonial accounts, they will point to some natural cause. But we know better, so we say, “I didn’t do that — God did.”
Our stories are ridiculed because the scoffers always see a natural cause behind every movement of God we talk about. Our thinking, to them, comes from our culture’s religious conditioning. But we know our own lives. We know things are no longer the same since the Savior of the World entered in. We know our routine has been interrupted once we heard the knocking and let the Resurrection and Life in. We can’t live the same way any more. “God did that,” we say in wonder.
The scoffer says that we have received amazing insights no differently than the many writers, artists, philosophers, and geniuses who had strokes of inspiration before us. But we say “God did that” because it is out of the ordinary for our lives and lines up with His purposes and character in the bible.
God is still “doing that” today. Obedient, believing children of God bear witness to these stories. They haven’t stopped with the bible’s publication two thousand years ago. May the Spirit be writing a new chapter in your life.
