God’s Best Story
Mark 6:24-27 She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” “The head of John the Baptist,” she answered. 25 At once the girl hurried in to the king with the request: “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”
26 The king was greatly distressed, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he did not want to refuse her. 27 So he immediately sent an executioner with orders to bring John's head. The man went, beheaded John in the prison.
YOU KNOW, sometimes it is really difficult reading the Bible. Here you have Evil in Herodias’ daughter and Herod vs. Good in John the Baptist. And John is killed. This is really not fair, God. You created John to be a Messenger for the Christ. “Where are you in this, God? Why?”
But then it’s time to pause and consider how limited is my point-of-view. I see nothing of the future and how all matters must point to the New Heaven and Earth. Although it seems John’s death and Herod’s sin have no good purpose, you and I must understand that we do not understand everything God must do to complete his plan of saving us forever.
Throughout scripture there are some terribly difficult stories when evil seems to win. But remember that the worst of those stories is the beginning of the best of all stories.
Yes, Evil seems to triumph over Good as Jesus is crucified. But God’s plan for Jesus’ death is for the beginning of your life. Jesus needed to die to conquer sin and Hell. Through God’s worst story comes God’s best story eternal life.
Pause and consider how God’s best story is for you.
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