It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings to search out a matter. (Proverbs 25:2)
Sometime when you're really studying hard something flits through your mind and if you're fast enough you can catch a glimpse of what it is and maybe do something with it.
I caught this one ...
We all have a story inside of us, personal to us, and no one else. It has to be somewhere in our spirit not in our physical body. It is absolutely true, not like the stories that we tell to others, the ones that we embellish to make ourselves look good or hide things.
We can't touch our real story. But every second of everyday it is added to by our thoughts, words, and deeds. It contains good thoughts and sins, good intentions and the bad deeds that we wish we could take back, good words and evil thoughts. Its first pages were written before we were born and it became our living story.
Our story is the only thing that we take with us when we move to our next life.
God will open our story when we stand before him on judgement day and our future will be determined by what he finds there.
Some will be surprised to find our story shorter than we expect it to be. Our spirit will remember hundreds, maybe thousands, of things that we did and said. Things that should condemn us to what we've been taught to call hell for an eternity of suffering. No matter how hard we look, they're not there, they're gone. Not erased, because there are no blank lines or missing pages. It will be as if they were never written about. Never recorded.
These were removed the second that we believed ON the Lord Jesus Christ, accepted his blood as the payment for our sins, and tried ever since to follow and obey.
On judgement day, when God looks at our story, he will not find the sins, evil, and problems that we know should be there. And when he closes our story and looks at us with love, returns to us our lost everlasting life, and invites us to live with him in Heaven, maybe then we'll understand John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."