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This is it!
Year: 1984 Age:
24
Matthea:
"Bev, have you got that book I lent
you? I need it back."
Me: Panic "I'll
look for it!" (Where is that book!?)
I hadn't read it,
just like I hadn't read the Bible she gave me. I'd looked at the one about the dangers of
astrology and it didn't make much sense to me, so I stopped there.
With much
searching I found the book, one put together by her pastor in the form of a series of
notes presenting the main themes of the Bible.
You know what it's
like. It was there.. so I read it. I was enthralled. I think I read it twice at a sitting.
I was sitting quietly in my lounge room, minding my own business, reading the most
important information ever to cross my path! Then God spoke. To refresh your memory:
GOD: "Do you believe that Jesus died
and rose again?"
Me: Startled
"Yes."
(Until He asked, I hadn't realised it...
but I did believe it.)
GOD:
"Well what are you doing about it?" |
Before
He spoke, I was unchanged by what I'd read. Somehow it seemed important but I didn't quite
know what to do with it. Once God spoke those few simple words to me, everything
changed! One moment I was blind - I didn't get it (although I sensed there was
something to get). The next moment, revelation!
Jesus
is real! He's alive! He is God!
This
changes everything!
Suddenly
I saw it.
Now,
if you haven't seen it, this will be singularly unhelpful to you. I realise this
with sadness. But this is my story and I have to tell it the way it happened, hoping
and praying that God will use something in what I say to help you see what I saw that day.
Logical
minds among us will be unmoved by this. Where are the facts, give me evidence. I want
proof.
You
know what? When God gives you faith, it is proof - it is evidence - it is solid
fact. The very process of being changed like that is totally real.
Do
you want that? To really know something is true for a change - not just wonder,
hope, doubt. It really is possible. And it changes everything.
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When God gives you faith,
it is proof,
it is evidence, it is solid fact.
The very process of being changed like that is totally real.
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