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SONJA D. GRACY
ONWARD

Sonja D. Gracy, author, playwright, and NYC public school teacher currently working on her next book, God and the Girls.

Most of us are familiar with the term, “drama queen,”—a term used to describe those who exaggerate situations for sympathy or attention. It has a negative connotation for sure. But if you’ll permit me to put a twist on this term in a strictly literal sense to describe God as a “Drama King,”—THE KING who uses plot, or the context of events and circumstances in exciting and passionate ways via storytelling, you’ll find my description fitting.

GOD is THE KING of storytelling. His Word, the Bible, has been read and cherished by countless numbers of people since its canonization or incorporation as one complete set of books, in 325 A.D. Though composed of 66 small books, all of the Old and New Testament books harmonize to create one, gripping, passionate story full of love, hate, twists, betrayals, victories, parables, and mini-plots that make it the “story of us” through the ages. The Lord begins His story (or history) in a paradise and ends it in an even more staggeringly glorious paradise, but loads it with an amazing tapestry of engaging heroes, sheroes, and villains and villainesses in between.

According to crosswalk.com, an online Christian living magazine powered by the Salem Broadcast Network, the Bible is “the bestselling book of all time, with sales exceeding half a billion dollars annually.”

The New Yorker magazine once said the Bible “is the best-selling book of the year, every year.” Its captivation lies partly in the way it dramatically reveals God and His ways to man. It also profoundly reveals man’s ways to man while stirringly providing God’s hope, answers, and comfort throughout. And it’s not just the compelling way the complete work is designed to finish in a victorious climax, it’s God style, it’s the way He tells it that is far from deism, (the idea that there is a God, but a quite remote one) that’s made it embraceable through millennia.

One description of the Bible as an exciting, incredible, and divine narrative was given by Pastor Joe Albert Bush Sr. of Walker Memorial Baptist Church in the Bronx. Bush stated, “The Bible is… a record of the wondrous deeds and saving acts of Almighty God in the context of human history.” Saving acts is the fulcrum of theme that pulses this “book of books” forward. God doesn’t just prophesy at the top of His saga that after man’s fall a Savior will reverse his demise. God becomes the Messiah out of divine necessity to save what He loves and created. Because death was ushered into man’s lineage under hellish influence, its sting had to be extinguished by an eternal and heavenly Hero.

God’s Bible features Himself as an engaged and passionately emoting protagonist—one so eminently in love with man that He reverses His creative order to make His invisible self visible. God’s story of man begins with making the “first Adam” in His image. Then, at just the right time in history, God rends the heavens to make the “Son of God” the “Son of Man” who’ll bear the image of the “last Adam.” It’s a plot that hushed all angels. Because it is impossible for God to die, He Himself becomes a human to “taste death for every man” to save people. Only the God of the Bible creates that kind of fate to save the fated. And only an imaginative, creative, and providential God could tell it the way He does as one, eternally splendid drama!

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