When the service was over, the guy next to me was interested in how I’d made notes of the sermon. He politely asked to see them. I had no problem sharing them.
This was the basis for a conversation about my own journey in coming to Christ.
What I enjoy about my story is that there are staple parts of it not to be missed, but there are also different perspectives and spins I can take on the subject that brings out areas of it that even I may not have considered until I shared the story.
On this occasion I stressed the light that appeared different on that fateful August afternoon in the back porch area of my friend’s house. As I shared about that light, I was reminded about how I shared with my nephew how the gopel can be told in terms of Jesus taking us from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light.
It is a very apt way of looking at the encounter. The confusion in my life at the time really was an issue of darkness. I was muddling around in the dark. My own dark understanding of things had lead me nowhere. Proving again, that a relationship with Jesus is not about stimulating intellect or anything of that sort – it’s about revealing how blind we are – I was – to the gravity of the situation, and how we would remain in the dark if it wasn’t for His marvellous Light shining through.
It was a brilliant Light. An amazing Light that truly shone on the reality of the situation and the greater reality of the solution.
It is thus a privilege two decades later to be living in that Light, and having the chance to reflect it to those scrambling in the dark in the hope that they might acknowledge it.
Also in the hope that as they embrace it they see how much better things are when you come out of the darkness.
For His Name’s Sale
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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