The Great Invasion

It is certainly true that the Bible is a book of wonderful stories.  There are love stories, stories about hero like characters, stories that recount history, stories that are exciting, and stories that create awe and wonder.  Characters like Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Ruth and Boaz, Mary and Joseph walk into the spotlight on center stage of the Book.   There is no end to the greatness of the men and women whose lives light up the pages.  As a young boy just beyond the years of learning to read, those stories became like required reading.  The more I read, the more I wanted to read.   

For some it is enough to say that the Bible is a collection of good stories.  With some of those people, the emphasis is on stories and not the actual lives lived and recorded within the pages.  The truth is, however, that the Bible is always more than just stories about people.  It is the story about God acting. It is the story about a great invasion of the earth.   It is the story of divine intervention.  C. S Lewis wrote about it with the words,  "Enemy-occupied territory—that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage."  

The Bible is not just about the stories of people.  It is the story of God acting in the affairs of humanity.  It is what He does.  He did it through the sending of His Son into the world to be born and to die on a cross.  He is doing it even now as He works in ways seen and unseen to bring human history and the Kingdom of God to a point of intersection where "...Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it in Heaven."