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Born into a Christian home I promised to
trust and obey Jesus Christ when very young; I asked God's forgiveness when
I failed and as a result had the relationship with God that gives Peace of
mind as nothing else can.
In my late teens I became less concerned
with pleasing God and more concerned with pleasing myself - as a result my
relationship with Him was broken. I still asked God for assistance in
times of difficulty, and He always helped - often in amazing
ways.
At 20 I married a farmer. At 40 my
husband died. Two years later my father died. My mother, paralyzed
since shortly after my birth, needing constant care came to live with
me. I inwardly rebelled against this restriction to my life and,
possibly partly as a result suffered multiple allergies and constant
migraine.
Eventually I remembered 2 verses from
the Holy Bible "Whoever calls on the Name of the Lord will be
saved" (Romans10:13) and "the Blood of Jesus Christ, God's
Son, cleanses us from all Sin"(1 John 1:7) So I called - I promised to
turn from pleasing myself to pleasing God, trusting only in the Blood Jesus
Christ shed at Calvary for me to make me acceptable to God. My
damaged relationship with Him was renewed.
When I asked for God's Power to do His Will, His Way for His
Glory, God filled me with His Holy Spirit. Almost at once I started
waking in the middle of the night with two lines of simple verse in my mind
- as I wrote them down more would follow. When I started sharing some
of these verses with others one person said "I seriously
question if your verses are from the Lord - if they were each one would be
grammatically perfect and a literary gem." I replied that they
undoubtedly were when they left my Lord, but they came through me and I'm
far from perfect.
Later I was given a mollusc shell -
instead of being rough, dirty and smelly as they usually are this one was
polished like a jewel. Under the rough exterior of these verses I
trust you will find some hidden jewels - they are all I have to offer back
to the One who died in my place.
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