The Last Page of Your Story
“The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.” – Revelation 3:5 My good friend Rich Mouw, a former president of Fuller Seminary, shared in a sermon his unusual way of reading a novel. When he begins to get worried about the protagonist or the situation, he goes to the book’s last page and reads it. His reasoning is he wants to know in advance the good outcome. He would say, “Oh good, they got together, or whew, he lived.” When he learns what the ending is, he goes back to whatever chapter he’s on, and reads his book in a more relaxed posture. What he shared in his sermon is this: I have a book about your life. I’ve read
