Who is the Author of Your Story? (Freedom Part 2)

When we allow our own pride to write our story, the ending becomes shaky, unclear, and not honoring to the Author.

When we surrender, and give the Author authority, we gain freedom in our story. (This is where I would encourage you to read ­What is Freedom? – Freedom Part 1 if you haven't already)

We get to wait on the Perfect Author to write each page and read them in His perfect timing.

The Perfect Author = God.

The one who created you, knit you together, and saw you when you were formless. The one who wrote your story before your first breath.

Psalm 139:13-16, “For it was You who created my inward parts; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I will praise You because I have been remarkably and wondrously made. Your words are wondrous, and I know this very well. My bones were not hidden from you when I was made in secret, when I was formed in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw me when I was formless; all my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began.”

We must not get consumed on how we can glorify ourselves, how we can be known, or how we can get on the pedestal. Instead, sit back and focus on how you can shift attention off yourself and onto the Author.

Step back, hand over the pen and allow God to take the lead as the Author of your story.

Do not only allow God to be the Author but allow God to be the main character of your story; where everything that has been written and all you have done points back to Him.

With God as our focus, all our efforts should bring those who look at us to look at Him.

That brings me to three points:

1.     God is our Author, allow Him to write your story.

2.     God is our Author, allow Him to read your story at His pace.

3.     God is the main character of our story, allow all you do to reflect unto Him.

Do not skip, tear, or rewrite a page; for every story written by the Author has a purpose and its unique beauty.

Jeremiah 29:11, “’For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.’”

Esther 4:14, “. . . Who knows, perhaps you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.”

We have been set free to give the Author AUTHORITY.

As scary as it seems to surrender, I promise you the freedom that lies within is so much greater than any control I could ask for. I personally have experienced this freedom in giving up control over an area in my life I held close since middle school. I did not truly give this up to the Lord until late 2023 and through this, even though I am unsure what my next steps look like, I have felt so much more relief when compared to the stress and burdens I felt when I held the pen.

Trusting in the one who made you, in the one who sees your unique beauty, is the ultimate solution to releasing the bondage of stress and worry.

I encourage you to identify one area you have not allowed God to take control as the Author. I challenge you to surrender this to Him and see how He will write your story; with more freedom and breakthrough you could ever produce alone.