Soul Scientist

Our stories shape our lives.

For good and for not.

For courage and for fear.

For receiving and for denying.

For love and for faith.

Our stories shape others’ lives.

Whether we like the stories or not.

Whether we prayed for the stories or not.

Whether we recognized the stories or not.

Our stories shape all of us.

Most importantly, the God Who started and sustains our stories reveals Himself to us in Scripture. Scripture tells us His story of steadfast love seen in the sacrificial gift of His Son, Jesus Christ.

There is no greater story than God’s.    

In turn, our lives lived out as part of God’s story shapes us in many ways with mercies and with grace.

Some of the ways we live Christ’s story every day include the following:

In our dreams and in God’s details.

              Jeremiah 29:11

In our delights and in God’s desires.

              Psalm 37:4

In our doubts and in God’s denials.

              Psalm 30:5

In our doing and in God’s deliverance.

              Psalm 103:14

In our strength and in God’s sufficiency.

              1 Corinthians 1:27

In our striving and in God’s supply.

              Psalm 46:10

In our successes and in God’s sovereignty.

              Jeremiah 32:17

In our satisfaction and in God’s steadfastness.

              Psalm 136:1

In our seeking and in God’s salvation.

              John 3:16

In our silence and in God’s superabundance.

              Ephesians 3:20-21

In our generosity and in God’s goodness.

              Matthew 7:11

In our grasping and in God’s grace.

              Psalm 23:3

In our grief and in God’s glory.

              John 9:1-3

In our gratitude and in God’s gifts.

              Psalm 118:24

In our fears and in God’s faithfulness.

              Psalm 56:1

In our failings and in God’s firmness.

              1 Samuel 12:24

In our fortitude and in God’s fatherhood.

              Matthew 6:9

In our talents and in God’s treasures.

              Matthew 6:33

In our trespasses and in God’s truth.

              John 8:32

In our trusting and in God’s telling.

              Ephesians 2:8-9

In our tenacity and in God’s triumph.

              1 Corinthians 15:27

In our past and in God’s provision.

              1 Samuel 1:18

In our present and in God’s protection.

              Ephesians 6:10-19

In our planning and in God’s peace.

              Philippians 4:6-7

In our praying and in God’s promises.

              James 5:16

In our pride and in God’s purposing.

              Romans 8:28

In our potential and in God’s power.

              Philippians 4:13

In our hopes and in God’s hands.

              1 Samuel 41:13

In our hearts and in God’s helping.

              1 Peter 4:10

In our hastening and in God’s holding.

              James 5:7

In our journeys and in God’s justification.

              Romans 12:1-2

In our judgements and in God’s justice.

              Micah 6:8

In our jargon and in God’s joys.

              Psalm 4:7

In our responding and in God’s redemption.

              Deuteronomy 9:26

In our relationships and in God’s reward.

              Genesis 15:1

In our restraint and in God’s renewal.

              John 15:1-5

In our confessions and in God’s calling.

              Psalm 51:1

In our communities and in God’s covenant.

              Hebrews 13:5

In our cooperation and in God’s consequences.

              Zechariah 4:6

In our choosing and in God’s commitment.

              Genesis 50:20

In our challenges and in God’s constancy.

              Psalm 23:1

In our weeping and in God’s way.

              Psalm 126:6

In our worship and in God’s working.

              Hebrews 11:21

In our weaknesses and in God’s Word.

              Psalm 73:26

In our words and in God’s wisdom.

              Psalm 33:6

In our understanding and in God’s unchanging.

              1 Corinthians 1:18

In our unknowns and God’s unmistakable.

              Luke 1:37

In our unrelenting and in God’s unstoppable.

              Isaiah 54:17

In our unapproachable and in God’s unexplainable.

              Isaiah 55:9

Thank you, Union University and the Lilly Foundation, for set-aside time and resources to think more about the importance of my story and others’ stories in view of the story of our Jesus.

Dear Reader,

Please know this truth – your story matters because you are dearly loved by the King of all creation Who made your story for His glory and the good of His people.

Thus, when you think of other ways our stories can show God’s story to others, please share these ways with all of us in the comments. All of us can grow in faith in our Jesus by hearing more of others’ stories lived in His grace, mercy, and love.

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Written by and copyrighted to Beth Madison, Ph.D., 2026.