The Most Amazing Story Ever Told

Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis

for some frogs to kiss, or some ugly ducklings to raise, or even a few Cinderellas to liberate. In the Kingdom Story, as in all great stories, you simply can never know who it is you have encountered, or what is truly happening. Things are more than what they appear to be. Dead messiahs rise again, and meek disciples wind up inheriting the earth. Can you see it? In God’s Story, the weak shame the strong, and the poor are rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom. In God’s Story, the first will be last and the last first. In God’s Story, to be great in the Kingdom is to be the servant of all. Everything is topsy-turvy, upside-down, inside-out. To succeed in the Kingdom, you’ve got to be prepared to see things in a new way, to let the Story change the way in which you see and understand everything. Story-tellers and Story-indwellers all know how to kiss frogs in such a way as to see some princes liberated out of them. The life of the prince is there; you need only give it a smooch to unlock the power. In the end, you simply ought not trust any so-called champions of the Kingdom who do not have warts on their lips, or don’t raise ugly ducklings for a living. They’re not legit.

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