I am a stubborn man at times, and at my age pretty much set in my ways. When the
Lord decided it was my time to accept Jesus Christ as my Savior he probably thought
to himself it was going to be a real long day!
Over the course of time, I have seen a number of folks suddenly bring Jesus into their
lives as if a bolt of lightening hit them. In my case, the Lord decided I needed to
journey down a beautiful path of discovery, empowerment and enlightenment. I can
not recall exactly when this metamorphose of my soul began but little by little about 5
years ago I could sense a strange restlessness going on within me. I was one of those
individuals who blamed God for everything that went wrong in my life. Funny, when
the good things happened it was always my doing! Most of us, at some point in our
lives experience personal tragedy and pain and I am no exception. Going through
these difficult times, the first thing I did was to reject the Lord, turn my back on him
and take all the responsibilities of my tragedy off my shoulders and become an
atheist. Well, that was easy!
Little did I realize, I was at that point, walking the earth, God's Earth with a painful
spiritual void in my heart that zapped every ounce of contentment out of my being.
Life was OK, and I was getting thought life pretty good, but something was missing
that I never could figure out. The death and tragedy that had changed my life was
behind me and I was doing well in my day to day existence. Good job, some nice
friends, good food, travel, no bills; It can't get better than that? WRONG! You can
have everything going good for you and if your life if missing Jesus Christ as your
Lord and Savior quite simply, your life is incomplete and no matter what you do,
things won't seem quite right.
Change is never easy, and for a man such as myself, I was guarded against change.
Why fix something if it isn't broken? What I didn't realize is, I was broken spiritually
and deep down inside, very sad. How grateful I am to the Lord to work with me
slowly and patiently on my journey to my Salvation! I suppose the simplest way to
describe my journey was that there were four stages I traveled through; Denial,
Thinking, Acceptance and at last Coming Home. Praise Jesus!
I want all of you to know, my new life is bringing me a harvest of good feelings and
contentment. How grand it is to awake each day with my Lord Jesus on my mind.
To go to sleep each night with Jesus blessing me and to have Jesus with me during
my daily tasks to guide me in my thoughts and actions. Once you accept the Lord you
will experience profound change in the everyday activities of your life. Suddenly, I
love going to work. Yes, I am working to provide for myself, doing a good job for my
company but in the end I am working for my Savior! I now find peaceful ways to
resolves things that bother me or annoy me. I used to hate grocery shopping and
even that has become a prayer to the lord. How fortunate I am that the Lord
nourishes me with his beautiful harvest of food. And what joy it is to go up and down
the isles of the store selecting not only items for myself but items I will be delivering
to my local food bank. Praise him!
People wonder if miracles really do happen. Personally I can say yes they do, for I
only need to look at myself and can testify that my salvation is a beautiful wondrous
miracle of my Lord, Jesus Christ. If there is anyone out there who may still be on a
journey to salvation please talk to me, for I will share with you how grand and full life
becomes once you bring Jesus into you life. I promise you, life becomes truly
magnificent in every way possible.
Praise Jesus and may the God Lord bless everyone of you today and for eternity!
Lord decided it was my time to accept Jesus Christ as my Savior he probably thought
to himself it was going to be a real long day!
Over the course of time, I have seen a number of folks suddenly bring Jesus into their
lives as if a bolt of lightening hit them. In my case, the Lord decided I needed to
journey down a beautiful path of discovery, empowerment and enlightenment. I can
not recall exactly when this metamorphose of my soul began but little by little about 5
years ago I could sense a strange restlessness going on within me. I was one of those
individuals who blamed God for everything that went wrong in my life. Funny, when
the good things happened it was always my doing! Most of us, at some point in our
lives experience personal tragedy and pain and I am no exception. Going through
these difficult times, the first thing I did was to reject the Lord, turn my back on him
and take all the responsibilities of my tragedy off my shoulders and become an
atheist. Well, that was easy!
Little did I realize, I was at that point, walking the earth, God's Earth with a painful
spiritual void in my heart that zapped every ounce of contentment out of my being.
Life was OK, and I was getting thought life pretty good, but something was missing
that I never could figure out. The death and tragedy that had changed my life was
behind me and I was doing well in my day to day existence. Good job, some nice
friends, good food, travel, no bills; It can't get better than that? WRONG! You can
have everything going good for you and if your life if missing Jesus Christ as your
Lord and Savior quite simply, your life is incomplete and no matter what you do,
things won't seem quite right.
Change is never easy, and for a man such as myself, I was guarded against change.
Why fix something if it isn't broken? What I didn't realize is, I was broken spiritually
and deep down inside, very sad. How grateful I am to the Lord to work with me
slowly and patiently on my journey to my Salvation! I suppose the simplest way to
describe my journey was that there were four stages I traveled through; Denial,
Thinking, Acceptance and at last Coming Home. Praise Jesus!
I want all of you to know, my new life is bringing me a harvest of good feelings and
contentment. How grand it is to awake each day with my Lord Jesus on my mind.
To go to sleep each night with Jesus blessing me and to have Jesus with me during
my daily tasks to guide me in my thoughts and actions. Once you accept the Lord you
will experience profound change in the everyday activities of your life. Suddenly, I
love going to work. Yes, I am working to provide for myself, doing a good job for my
company but in the end I am working for my Savior! I now find peaceful ways to
resolves things that bother me or annoy me. I used to hate grocery shopping and
even that has become a prayer to the lord. How fortunate I am that the Lord
nourishes me with his beautiful harvest of food. And what joy it is to go up and down
the isles of the store selecting not only items for myself but items I will be delivering
to my local food bank. Praise him!
People wonder if miracles really do happen. Personally I can say yes they do, for I
only need to look at myself and can testify that my salvation is a beautiful wondrous
miracle of my Lord, Jesus Christ. If there is anyone out there who may still be on a
journey to salvation please talk to me, for I will share with you how grand and full life
becomes once you bring Jesus into you life. I promise you, life becomes truly
magnificent in every way possible.
Praise Jesus and may the God Lord bless everyone of you today and for eternity!