Playing through the original Halo games back when they first launched is a vastly different experience than returning to replay them now. In my first playthrough, this seemingly basic “space marine saves the day” story quickly gave way to some surprising (and sometimes unwelcome) twists and turns. From exposing the iconic Halo ring to be an intergalactic threat in more ways than one to the Arbiter evolving from a lethal adversary to a valuable and critical ally, each chapter wouldn’t make much sense if they were played alone without context. But after the trilogy was completed, even the cliffhangers I didn’t originally like made sense… they were serving a larger story.

The story the Lord is telling through our life will often feel like chaotically disparate chapters that aren’t always easy to appreciate while we are living through them, but they are pages in a book that won’t fully make sense until after the final sentence is written in both our story and the connected stories being told in the lives of others. In His time, His purpose for the cliffhangers and betrayals we’re enduring will be revealed… and then we’ll finally understand.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:17-18

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. 1 Corinthians 13:12

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