As we follow God in a broken world, He is at work in the upper story of our lives to keep us from falling.

Ruth is a love story on a number of levels, but most of all it is a story that shows we are accepted and loved by God the Father.

In the book of Judges we find a repeating cycle of God rescuing and restoring His people after they refuse to acknowledge Him. This cycle is broken when we live surrendered to Him.

After 600 years from God’s promise to Abraham to make him a great nation, the children of Israel are ready to advance into the Promised Land. In order to overcome the huge obstacles ahead of them, they will need to courageously trust and obey God.

Following God requires us to place our absolute trust in Him. If we rebel we will find ourselves in the desert, but even here God continues to mercifully watch over us.

The big idea of the whole Story is God's declaration, "I want to come down and dwell with you." We see this in the story of Moses and the Israelites when God draws near to them so they could experience His presence.

In the lower story Exodus gives us a spiritual lesson of trusting the one true God and not compromising with the world. In the upper story, we see God's plan of deliverance from the power of darkness through Jesus Christ.

The account of Joseph gives us a spiritual lesson of destiny in the lower story and the upper story reveals God's plan for mankind with the amazing parallels between Joseph and Jesus.

Despite the spiritual virus of sin that entered into the world, God didn’t give up on humankind. His attention on the upper story was focused on a plan of restoration. He desired a people to reflect His goodness, and plan to redeem the world. He chose one man, Abraham, a man of faith, to be the patriarch of that special nation.

The beginning of our journey through The Story of the Bible is like the beginning of an action-packed movie. If you miss the opening minutes of a movie with its fast-paced scenes, you will not understand the rest of the story.