History matters because God says it does. The Bible makes that plain. Scripture is not mainly a handbook of private spirituality. It is the record of God’s action in time. Large stretches of it are history because God wants his people to remember what he has done in the world.

Why does that matter? Because the God of Abraham, Moses, David, and the prophets is not a tribal deity of inward feelings. He is Lord of history. He calls a people, judges nations, topples idols, keeps covenant across centuries, and in the fullness of time sends his Son into the
actual stream of human events. Christianity is revelation lodged in history.

That is why Christians go wrong when they imagine faith as merely “me and Jesus.” The gospel is personal, but it is never private. You do not arrive at Christ by bypassing the long economy of God. You do not step from your pew through a wormhole to Pentecost, as though Israel, the prophets, the exile, the apostles, and church history up until your arrival were all disposable preliminaries. No. To become a Christian is to be inserted into a story already in motion, a drama authored by God long before you arrived.

And that means history is not only important in the abstract. It means you matter. God’s story did not stop with Acts 28. The same Lord who moved through patriarchs, kings, prophets, apostles, martyrs, and saints has not ceased to act. He is still governing history, still gathering a
people, still pressing his kingdom into the world.

So history matters because God works in history. And because he works in history, your life is not accidental. You are not a spectator. You are a participant in the story of redemption.

Maranatha,

Jordy