Faith Forum ~ The Author of Life By Gloria Wessner

In order to be a good writer, one needs to have original ideas – the designer or mastermind of a good story or article. The author needs to know how to keep a good storyline going and how to end the story well. A story that finishes well leaves a reader with a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment. Only the author knows the planning and the full story from beginning to end.
One can only imagine that to be the author of life, that individual would have to be not only original, but a perfect genius at designing all the intricacies and systems of life that interweave in and around each other. The only being who would be capable of accomplishing such a feat is God. He planned all of life from start to finish:
“For the Lord is God, and he created the heavens and earth and put everything in place. He made the world to be lived in, not to be a place of empty chaos. “I am the Lord,” he says, “and there is no other.” (Isaiah 45:18 NLT)
His design was perfect. He even designed and formed man in his own image. One of the greatest gifts he gave to mankind was that of free choice. He designed people so they could either choose to live for Him or choose to live for themselves. We know from the account in God's word of the story of Adam and Eve and how they chose to disobey God and that it brought the condition of wickedness (or sin as God's word calls it) upon the world. God not only planned and created the world; but when mankind sinned, he also had a plan in place to provide a way for man (now in his sinful state) to receive new life so that the broken relationship that happened when wickedness entered the world would not only be repaired, but fully restored.
“But there is a great difference between Adam's sin and God's gracious gift. For the sin of this one man, Adam, brought death to many. But even greater is God's wonderful grace and his gift of forgiveness to many through this other man, Jesus Christ.” (Romans 5:15 NLT)
This is how God made that way work:
“But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him … We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are. For everyone has sinned (done wrongdoings); we all fall short of God's glorious standard. Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past, for he was looking ahead and including them in what he would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate his righteousness, for he himself is fair and just, and he declares sinners to be right in his sight when they believe in Jesus.” (Romans 3:21-26 NLT parenthesis mine).
So God not only created life and us in the first place, He also provided a way (as shown in the above piece) to repair that broken relationship. This allows us to finish life well if we choose to live for Him and not for ourselves, too. During this time of Thanksgiving, it is something to be thankful for.
“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:2 KJV)
“And he also said, 'It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega—the Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty I will give freely from the springs of the water of life.” (Revelation 21:6 NLT)
Readers are invited to write Gloria at: gloriawes@hotmail.com.