Happily Ever After...

Once upon a time…

Any story that starts out with those words is going to be a good one! I mean if it starts with “once upon a time” it is going to end with “happily ever after.” That’s our dream right?!? We want to live happily ever after. We make most of our decisions, both good and bad, based on living happy.

We hear the stories of Cinderella or The Frog Prince and long to be those characters. We want to be the slave girl who turns out to be a princess. We dream of being that slimy frog who turns out to be a prince. We know that we’re made for more. We are hard-wired to live for something more. The truth is the longing in our heart is not a dream it is a reality. We are made for intimacy with the Creator of the Universe! The world tells us to live small, but our hearts long to live big.

The Word made Flesh, Jesus, came to show us that we live big the kingdom of God. The first thing out of Jesus’ mouth when he started his ministry—Matthew, Mark, Luke, check it out—the first thing he says is, “I have come to declare the kingdom of God is at hand” We are slaves to sin and set free to live in the kingdom of God. In Jesus we live happily ever after.

That is Amazing Grace!