Am I Worth Reading?

Let me start out by asking this… if you had to read your life as a story to someone, would it be worth reading?
If all of our lives were told as stories and we were characters in our stories, I think it would be interesting. Would you be the character that lives to provide for the good of others or will you be the character that does not want to do anything uncomfortable? Will you be a character filled with travels and adventures that most dream about or will you be the one dreaming that you wish you could have done that? Will you be able recount some of the awesome people that you have met and helped shape your life and that you helped shape them, or will you just talk about celebrity gossip?
I thought about this a while ago. If Jesus just stayed where he was and just sacrificed himself on the cross without healing, teaching, and doing miracles, that would have been a boring story. But instead, we have four different accounts of his life that highlight four different perspectives. He did some pretty awesome things, and if it was never written, we would not have known about it. We are the same way. If we do not talk about the amazing things that God is doing in our lives and we do try and engage the world that we live in, our lives will be bland. People will fall asleep reading our books!

So what I want to encourage you to do today is to step out and live your life like it is a book worth reading. People love stories. They love to hear how God impacted you, how you met your spouse, what foreign places you have seen, etc. But you can never have those stories if all you do is sit at home and watch TV and let the rest of the world pass you by. Now is the time to take a job you always wanted. Now is the time to do something you never thought you would do. Now is the time to get to know someone you always thought was interesting (not always relational). The point is, you have to get out and do something.

In order to include people into your life, you have to have a life to speak of. So let me ask you again, if you had to read your life as a story to someone, would it be worth reading?