Relevant Life

Yesterday (2-22-25) I turned 53. Over half of my life has floated away like smoke in the wind. Just yesterday, it appears, I was a young man trying to find his way in life. In August of this year ( 2025), I surrendered my heart and mind to my Savior. The moment of my repentance is still so vivid in my mind. It was storming outside on a hot summer day and the power was flickering off and on in this old country church. The pastor was preaching a typical salvation message; my heart was pounding in my chest. Before this night, I had been having simple encounters with God and on this night, was my moment to walk an aisle , kneel at the front pew, and surrender my all to a Savior who died for me. As I reflect today, my surrender happened way before this night of salvation. It happened way before my walk down an aisle.

As I reflect, my surrender/ salvation started when I laid in the bed one night crying my eyes out after reading the whole book of Matthew. God touched me by simply reading His Word. His Word changed my life for the better.

As I reflect, God’s word has the power to change and alter any life for those who believe. It has the power to keep a 13 year old boy still following him some 40 years later. 40 years later, I am still assured in the promise of my Lord. I am still devoted to His truth. I have not been perfect these 40 years of being a follower of Christ. I have not been sinless. I have not been without reproach. I have not always been faithful.

As I reflect, in these past 40 years, God has been faithful when I was not. God has been graceful when I sometimes stepped on His grace. He has been merciful when I have taken advantage of His mercy. God has always been God even when I was not always his best follower.

I reflect on this scripture of truth.

e-Sword

Rom 8:38  I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love which Christ Jesus our Lord shows us. We can’t be separated by death or life, by angels or rulers, by anything in the present or anything in the future, by forces

Rom 8:39  or powers in the world above or in the world below, or by anything else in creation.

What are you reflecting on today?