I KNOW
I stand before you, a changed man. The life I once lived, I live no more; I am a man changed. Once, I thought I knew, so much more, I thought, than what was merely true. Once, I fancied myself to be wise in worldly ways, imagined I was clever, capable of carving out my own way in an unfriendly world. Once, I believed that I knew all that was needed to be a great success in the world I had set out to conquer. My wisdom was revealed to be merely worldly ignorance, a house built on sand built of sticks and straw, and being built on sand, it could not stand but swiftly collapsed during the first strong winds. I was left seated like Job, in the rubble of my life, shaken to the core, having lost faith in myself as champion, as shepherd of my soul; and more. I could not summon the strength to press on. Left, seated; defeated, and alone. I testify today to undergoing a radical reformation at the Lord's hand, one challenging all my assumptions about who I was, or what I had really accomplished within my empty life. I was compelled to see how little I had achieved by my own hand. I was disquieted deeply by those whom I had caused sadness, and brought distress and pain. I could see that most of what I considered my successes had been claimed at the expense of so many others. And then I WAS changed, transformed, with numbing and deliberate speed, into a new person, one distinct from my former self, yet, one aware of all my failings and false narratives, but also, aware that a new opportunity had come to me to recover wasted years and days, to restart my life all over, again. My life IS changed! It IS new! All doubts about my purpose in life have been erased, my purpose is aligned with the will of God, the will of Him who is able, of Him who enables me to labor in His fields, to accomplish that which, in my other life, I could not even see. I have been inhabited by the Holy Spirit since my surrender to His transforming power, since I accepted and embraced His yoke upon my shoulders. All is right. All is well. This is the way I know I should go. And now that I know, it is with Him I go! Amen. 4/21/2020 12:31:42 pm
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