"And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen." (John 21:25)
It is difficult to understand how it could be literally true that a complete biography of Christ's works would be an earth-filling library. However, we must realize that His works did not end with His return to heaven. The events of His 33 years on earth were only what "Jesus began both to do and teach" (Acts 1:1). When He prayed, it was not only for His twelve disciples, "but for them also which shall believe on me through their word" (John 17:20). When He sent the Holy Spirit, it was so that each believer could know that "Christ liveth in me" (Galatians 2:20) and that by His Spirit, He could fulfill His promise: "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world" (Matthew 28:20). He also promised to "build my church" (Matthew 16:18) in which each believer becomes a member of "his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all" (Ephesians 1:23).
Thus, the life and work of every believing Christian is, in a very real sense, an extension of the life and work of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and an endless series of thrilling biographies could be written about them. In fact, the apostle Paul referred to his Christian converts as living books: "Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart" (2 Corinthians 3:2-3).
Each of our own lives, therefore, becomes one of "the books that should be written" about the "things which Jesus did." How important it is that the deeds and words we record in our books are worthy of our divine Biographer! JDM
