Season Finale: When Your Story Isn’t Over
- Vessel Church
- Jun 22
- 3 min read
By Pastor Alex Jordan
You ever get to the end of a TV show and think, “That’s it?”
Maybe a favorite character was written out too soon, or a storyline ended with more questions than answers. It’s frustrating when a season finale leaves you hanging.
Sometimes, life feels the same way.
A conversation I had recently reminded me of that—Lydia said, “Life feels like a season finale.” There’s tension, a sense of waiting, wondering how it’s all going to end. Maybe that’s you right now. Maybe you're wondering, Where’s the resolution?
You made plans, set goals, dreamed big—and then life took a hard left. You were expecting a neat conclusion, but instead, it feels like the episode cut to black mid-scene.
You’re not alone. Abraham and Sarai felt that way too.
When the Plot Doesn’t Go As Planned
In Genesis 15, God makes a wild promise to Abram:"Look toward heaven, number the stars… so shall your offspring be." But here’s the problem—Abram doesn’t have a single child.
So what happens next? They try to rewrite the story themselves.Genesis 16 tells us Sarai offers her slave Hagar to Abram in hopes of “building a family.” But what was meant to be a shortcut to God’s promise quickly becomes a relational mess. Hagar gets pregnant. Sarai is filled with resentment. Abram checks out emotionally. And Hagar runs.
The show starts to feel like it’s falling apart.
Are You Focused on the Gift or the Giver?
Sometimes we get so focused on the gift we think we deserve—success, healing, restoration, a relationship—that we lose sight of the Giver. When things don’t play out the way we hoped, we either take the pen from God’s hand or toss the script entirely.
And then comes the twist in the story.
God Meets Us in the Middle of the Episode
Genesis 16:7 says: “The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert.” She was running. Alone. Pregnant. Rejected.
And yet—God found her.He called her by name. He acknowledged her pain. He made a promise about her future.
And in that moment, Hagar gives God a name: El Roi, “the God who sees me.”She says, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”
Friend, maybe you feel like your episode has ended in heartbreak. A diagnosis. A divorce. A disappointment. But God sees you—and He’s still writing.
Who’s in the Director’s Chair?
We all want to be in the writer’s room, don’t we? We want to call the shots, plan the twists, choose the cast. But there’s only one seat in the high director’s chair—and it belongs to God.
Luke 7 gives us a powerful moment: A widow is on her way to bury her only son. Her episode is ending in a funeral. But Jesus steps in. He sees her. He stops the procession. He raises the boy from the dead and gives him back to his mother.
Just like that—the episode flips. The ending we feared becomes the beginning of something new.
A Season May Be Ending… But Your Story Isn’t Over
You may feel like it’s all gone off the rails. You may feel like the best parts are behind you. But hear this:
God is still in the room, still holding the pen, still working on your story.
The enemy would love to hand you a megaphone and a clipboard and let you run the show. But only God writes endings that redeem everything.
We saw that on Good Friday—the darkest day, the deepest despair.But Sunday came. Resurrection came. What looked like a series finale was just the end of the season.
Communion: Trust the Author
As we take communion today, we remember that we are not the writers.We’re the characters.But praise God—we have a trustworthy, faithful, all-knowing Author.
And He never leaves a story unfinished.
So wherever you find yourself—on a mountaintop, in a valley, or sitting in the ashes of what used to be—don’t stop reading. Don’t close the book.
Because the next chapter might just be the one where everything changes.
A season may be ending but your story is still being written.
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