Hello, Friday Fiction Friends! I hope you still call me a friend. I know I keep sneaking non-fiction into these posts and this is the very last time.
I promise. But it is Good Friday of Easter week. And I’ve just returned from a writer’s conference.
Excuses aside, I love Max Lucado’s books. He’s the first Christian living author I ever read as an adult and his book, God Whispers Your Name, greatly impacted my life. The God of the universe loves me for me and formed me in my mother’s womb. Mind-boggling. And He has a special name waiting for me in Heaven written on a white stone? (Revelation 2:17) Beyond wonderful…
Lucado writes crisp prose with no extra words. He can be easily understood but the concepts he explores are worth taking time to mull over. He Still Moves Stones is a classic. God didn’t stop removing blockades to victory after Easter morning.
It’s what happens when obstacles prevent you from seeing what God has done for you …He still moves stones.
People with questions. The Bible is absolutely full of them. A crook on a cross. A wild man in a cemetery. A five-time divorcee. A despondent cripple. A grieving sister. A father at the end of his rope.
Why are these portraits in the Bible? So we can look back in amazement at what Jesus did? No … these aren’t just Sunday school stories. They are historic moments in which a real God met real pain so we could answer the question. “Does God care when I hurt?”
On every page of this powerfully moving book, Max Lucado reminds us, the God who spoke to Moses at the burning bush still speaks loudly to you today. The God who forgave King David still offers you forgiveness. The God who helped men and women in ages past still comes into your world, and he comes to do what you can’t, to move the stone away so you can see his answer.
The God of Good Friday and Easter is the God of that Saturday when nothing seemed to be happening. In my own life, waiting hangs around far longer than I would like. But He has a plan and it is good. So, I enjoy the journey while I”m waiting knowing He will move the stones as needed.
I’d highly recommend He Still Moves Stones and any books by Max Lucado.
See you next Friday for a new fiction read.
I really, truly promise.
