I want to share with you a fantastic story. This story is not about Jesus, but about two people. Thirteen years ago, if I told them that they would be happily married, you’d laugh at me. Not because they are not the marrying type, but because they were best friends, who happened to be in long term relationships with close friends of each other. They set each other up with their own close friends from circles they did not share until they were heavily entrenched into dating those other people. Since then they broke up with their respective boyfriends and girlfriends, multiple times over and both of them never single at the same time. Finally single at the same time, and their respective parents feeling a sense of urgency set them up on a blind date… With each other! Unbeknownst to them, their parents have plotted this situation for years, patiently waiting for the right opportunity. Not too long after their “blind date” with each other, they married. Their true love was underneath their noses this whole time and it took meddling parents for love to take hold in their lives. Unbelievable, right? It’s too fantastic! I can’t say that the story I just told you was true. But I can say that there’s another love story that I know is true, and perhaps even more fantastic, but most of us think it as an empty tall-tale. We all know that story as the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, the Christ. However, if we were to just believe this story, there’d be something so radically fantastic about it because we would be woven into the fabric of that story through our belief in it. Jesus lived because we, as imperfect as we are, are His true love. He died so that His true love can live. He was raised from the dead so that He could be with us forever. As a result, we get a chance to live into a fantastic love story that is so true, every Korean Drama writer wants to mimic it. Yet, that’s exactly the problem– nobody gives it any chance anymore. Mary Magdalene, Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them told the disciples that Jesus, who was dead, is no longer dead. … but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. (Luke 24:11 ESV) Peter was curious. Peter believed what he heard and decided to follow up. The Bible says that he went to the tomb and then “marveled.” His belief in the story he heard did something to him on the inside. It did something to his faith. It did something about his place in history. He was woven into the story of Jesus because of his belief. If we would believe this fantastic story with all our heart, our lives would change. We would begin to do things that radically change everything around us and our own lives would be a fantastic story. Decide today if you want this fantastic story to be your own. Go on the prayer wall and write down how.