I am so relieved that my last Sunday morning message included this comment near the end:
I have repeatedly mentioned to you in sermons a book written by the late W. Graham Scroggie titled, The Unfolding Drama Of Redemption: The Bible As A Whole. It is a delightful Bible commentary that examines the entire Bible, explaining it like the grand drama that it is. Essential to any drama is what is called the protagonist, from a Greek word protos, meaning first, and agonistes, meaning actor. Webster defines it, “Protagonist, in the drama, the leading character or actor in a play, novel, or story, about whom the action centers; hence, a person who plays a leading or active part.”
Events of late make it all
the more necessary for the child of God to remember and take comfort in the
preeminence of Christ. There was the debacle in Kabul, Afghanistan several
weeks ago, the overwhelming rejection of the effort to recall California Gov. Gavin
Newsome yesterday, and the revelation out of Washington DC from Bob Woodward’s
soon to be released book that General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, engaged in two direct yet unauthorized conversations with the
commanding officer of the People’s Liberation Army of China.
Where does that leave the
child of God? How does the believer react to these extraordinary circumstances
and revelations? We are left where we have always been as Christians, safely in
the Savior’s hands. Our reaction to the circumstances that we see around us
ought to be, stay the course. Continue to look unto Jesus, the Author and finisher of our faith. I am so thankful my God is the God of all
comfort.
