From day of birth
my life thou’st led; Thy faithfulness ever my guest; with loving grace Thou
cov’r’st my head; Thy plan for me Thy gracious best.
Today is my birthday. (The day I write this, not the day
you read it.) It is a day to reflect on
the great grace of God in Christ. For
many years my flesh, in body and mind, has been plagued by various ills from
petty to profound. For those same years
my income has ranged from little to a little more than that. But these are not the issues that life is
made of or to be about. Jesus said that
our life does not consist in the abundance of things we possess. Our wealth is His grace. Our thorns in the flesh are the opportunities
for His grace to be manifest through us.
Today I reflect on the wonderful riches of the grace of God to me. These are riches that cannot be taken away or
lost in earthly calamity.
First there is peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ. 42 years ago I was at enmity
with God and He with me. I was a child
of wrath in mind, body and spirit. My
destiny was sorrow in this life and greater sorrow for eternity. Then, in a grand revelation of His grace, I
was no longer an alien to the life and hope and peace of God. He saved me and forgave my sins and made me
His child. He did this because of His
grace in Christ who died for my sins and rose again for my justification.
Secondly He set me on a path of wonderful adventure with
Him. Though I never planned to go to
college He has taken me to graduate from four to prepare for His service. It brought me to meet my dear wife whose only
goal in life was to serve her Savior.
What a perfect companion He gave me.
It has taken us across America to serve in pastoral ministry, music
ministry, education ministry and missionary ministry. We have learned languages we didn’t know
existed and led people to the Savior from many places we had never even
imagined visiting. This path has given
us six wonderful children who are all active in their own churches with two of
them in full time ministry. This path
has seen our bank account never run dry even when my income was insufficient to
pay just the rent and we had no other income.
God has been ever faithful. He
has been ever gracious. He has been ever
the wonderful Savior who wooed me from sin to salvation in His dear Son. This day is really a celebration of His
goodness and love.
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