I saw my aunt and uncle at Costco wholesale store this morning. He was an electrician by trade, and is now
enjoying retirement. On occasion he will
help out at church doing electrical work when it is needed. He is a wonderful man of God.
During our visit, he briefly recapped how he met my mom’s sister on a
blind date when he was on leave from the army.
He believes that it was fate in meeting her, and that it changed the
destiny of the rest of his life. He said
that he was well on his way to becoming an alcoholic. Uncle Wayne, as I call him, was also a slave
to tobacco, and smoked like a chimney.
This man respected and loved my aunt so much that he did a complete
“about face” from the life he was living to becoming a Christian; no longer a
wanderer in search of something worth living for. He found the precious gift of salvation and
his soul mate for life.
It is amazing how God knows our name and where we are at any given
moment even in our wandering from place to place and having little vision of what
tomorrow may bring; just living for today.
Like my uncle, I too was headed down a wide road to destruction;
lacking the hope that I now possess through Jesus Christ the Lord. I was indeed the wanderer that was looking
for stability in all the wrong places.
No matter where a person is spiritually, or what side of the tracks
they find themselves on, or how deep in sin they have ventured, there is no
love like God’s love for those that are wondering aimlessly in search of peace. He gives peace.
(John 14:27), “Peace I leave with
you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let
it be afraid.”
I believe things happen for a reason to open our eyes to the reality
that we are lost and need a Savior and that we cannot achieve sanctuary within
our own ability and strength.
We all need Jesus in our life to heal broken pieces and take away the
loneliness that sinning causes. He alone
can take the cares of living and turn them into joy, thus, providing an
abundant life that we so desperately need, when all else has failed.
All it takes is to believe that God raised Jesus from the dead and ask
Him to forgive our sins, and we will be saved.
When the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit make their abode in our heart, the
wandering ceases and stability takes precedent.
We become a new creation in Christ.
Old things pass away and all things become new in Him.
It goes without saying that things just don’t happen in life, but they
are ordained by God and if we heed His perfect will, things occur in positive
ways. Looking back and assessing my life
as I often do, I realize that certain things just didn’t happen; God was
involved, arranging and influencing situations to bring me to the saving
knowledge of Jesus Christ.
God in heaven has a plan that supersedes our own intellect, imagination
and dreams. There is no doubt in my
uncle’s mind that my aunt was sent to him, through circumstances, to lead him
to the Lord, which altered his life in most positive ways.
Perhaps you have doubts that there are forces at work with you in mind;
having good things in store for you. Put
your uncertainties and misgivings to rest.
GOD LOVES YOU! I promise! He wants the very best that His Son made
possible when He died on the cross for your sins and the sins of humanity.
You need only to reach out and receive the gift of
salvation—Jesus—God’s Son. The wandering
will cease and the joy will come.
(Acts 4:12), “Nor is there
salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men
by which we must be saved.”
Written by,
Papa Boyd
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