The Author-August 25

One of our breakout classes two weeks ago was based on the new song "The Author" by Brandon Lake and Nick Jonas.

Today-I want to zoom in on the first verse:

VERSE ONE
Picked up the Book for the first time in ages
Still washed me clean with the dust on the pages
My life is a story I struggle to write
But is it one worth telling? Is it one You like?

CHORUS
So who am I? Who am I?
Am I just a poor preacher's prodigal son?
A troubled child, running wild
Chasing the glory instead of the One
Who says that I, even I
Have something still left to offer?
So who am I? Who am I
To question the pen in the hands of The Author?
 
So much is packed into the very first verse of the song...
Can you relate? Picked up the Book [the Bible] for the first time in ages...
Maybe you can relate. Maybe instead of diving into the Scriptures, you find other things to dive into. Books? The News? Social Media? YouTube?
Maybe you can't relate, I mean you are here today reading a daily devotional! (Gold Star!) But it does make you wonder what the song writers were going through when they wrote that line. What made them pick up their Bible? What makes you pick up yours?

No matter why they picked up their Bible, or when you last read your Bible, the next sentence still hits hard: Still washed me clean with the dust on the pages. AMEN! By Jesus' blood-we are all still washed clean of our sins! Hopefully, we never forget that!

The next line of the song was the whole reason why we chose the theme for JumpStart 2026. My life is a story...that was the whole point of "Your Story" two weekends ago. We all have a story to tell! But the authors of the song said: My life is a story I struggle to write... Can you relate to that? I know I definitely can.
My life is a story I struggle to write...
For most of us, it is hard to find our Story, let alone be able to tell it easily to others.
This is why we had Rick Odell literally walk us through a class explaining how to write our Faith Stories! (A link to that activity can be found on your wristband or at www.ccneosho.com/daily-devo)

We don't want you to forget that fact that even though it is a struggle to write, or tell our story, it is a story that is worth telling because it is a story about a life that has, hopefully, found JESUS! A life that has found THE LORD!

We will come back tomorrow and unpack the last sentence of the first verse! Hope to see you then! -Zac