A marplot is a character in a story who intentionally frustrates or ruins someone else’s plans or undertakings. According to Jesus, the ending to His story was to be His return to life after being killed. But the marplots were on a mission to prevent even the appearance of such a thing. Having done their level best to discredit the Jesus story while He lived, they continued even after His execution. They made His tomb as secure as they knew how and thought that was surely the end of the story. But the story had a twist that even the marplots could not have possibly anticipated. Their security measures failed. In a blinding blaze of light and with a mighty quaking of the earth, Jesus was alive again. The marplots not only failed to prevent the happy ending of the Jesus story, but their best attempt to do so made the ending even more glorious!
In the same way, the evil one is the chief marplot in our lives. His intent is to destroy our confidence in Christ. Don’t be discouraged. Though he makes the deception as secure as he knows how and rolls a stone over the door of our hopes, God always assigns an angel to roll it away at the proper time, revealing to us an even more glorious Jesus!
Because in the end, marplots are but instruments of greater miracles for God’s people.
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