"A Story That's True"

  A while back my wife and I were watching the movie "Camelot". Here was King Arthur with his idea of a round table where all noble knights could sit in unity. Wrongs would be made right and evil extinguished from the land. Then something went terribly amiss. Lancelot and Guinevere came together in dishonor. Treason was the word and Guinevere was tried, found guilty and sentenced to death. Lancelot came to her rescue, carrying her off to France. From that time onward, Lancelot's forces were going to war with the Knights of the round table. 

  It's the end that was interesting. On the morning the battle was to ensue, King Arthur was preparing and a boy appeared before him named Tom of Warwick. The boy wanted to go to battle against the enemy. He wanted to be a knight! King Arthur asked why? Was his father a knight? No! What did this little boy know of knights? It was the stories he was told and King Arthur asked: "What stories?" Tom of Warwick spoke of the round table, might for might, right and justice for all! The idea was still alive and well in the mind and heart of this little boy. Hope was restored and the message had affected another generation.

  We come to God and read in Scriptures how greater those who had died are much better off now than when they lived and walked this earth. People who struggled in this world all in the name of the Lord. They lived in difficulties, prisons and were ill-treated. Just read Hebrews 11. Even though some two thousand years have passed, we still hear them speaking in their faith. They had entrusted themselves to the God and their faith could see what awaited. Simply put, they wanted to be with the Lord. They were wanted by the Lord. Their lives speak to us today and stir within us the glory that awaits.

  "And though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls." (I Pet. 1:8-9)

  What a story of truth and justice! Are you ready? Only stories of truth live forever because no lie ever lives.