Tuesday, August 26, 2014

The Wanderer

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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