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You don’t know how TERRIBLE you are….
I was speaking with a friend just yesterday (3
rd
April, 2009), and said to him,
I ameternally grateful to God for saving my soul and for counting me worthy to preachthe gospel of salvation to people.
The reality of how terrible I was hit me when Iattended a programme in the week and the scriptural reading came from 1 Timothy 1: 11-17. Apostle Paul wrote on how terrible he was before the Lord saved him; he was beforea blasphemer, a persecutor, and injurious man: but obtained mercy, because he did itignorantly in unbelief. He even referred to himself as a chief sinner.Years before he wrote those verses, before he met with the Lord, he would haveconsidered himself as the best of men. He was a Pharisee, a man who live according tothe Law of Moses with a measure of perfection, he was educated, and very zealous whenit come to the issue if the Jewish religion. He was one of the people that others looked upto when it comes to the Jewish walk; he even fought against Christian so that the Jewishtraditions might be preserved. He would have raised his head high as one of the most lawabiding person in Israel; he was what any parent will want his child to be like; he was the best.Then when he was on a crusade to arrest Christians, he had an encounter that changed hislife for ever; he met with the Lord of Glory. That made him to have a true picture of himself from what he and others perceive him to be; like Isaiah who had an encounter with the Lord and the Prophet saw himself as a man of unclean lips, Paul the Apostle alsohad a picture of himself. The things that he and others celebrate became not as glorious asthey use to be for him; he was a transformed man by that experience.Before I met with the Lord, I had a feeling that I was a good person. I attended churchregularly; I avoided as much as possible the known vices common with people. My world picture of myself was that I was far better than many, though deep inside there was anunsettlement that I did not know how to explain until when the Lord saved me. I did notconsider certain things as sin- masturbation is one of them; I readily judge people andview myself as one of the best behaved men on earth.About fifteen years ago, I had an encounter that changed everything about me; the Lordfound me in the fellowship I attended in the university and gave me the grace to make acommitment to him. My encounter was not like that of Paul, but equally powerful. Thensomething happened to me; I began to see a true picture of who I am. I discovered thatmy view of sin, life, hell, and even God was wrong all the while. I came to discover, Iwas living in a fool’s world.Have you been caught in an act that is wrong; you will feel naked, ashamed and terrifiedof the consequence of your misdeed? That was how I felt when the Lord saved me; I feltnaked, and desperately needed to be clothed from the shame sin exposed me to. I made adiscovery that I could not stop sinning without His help; I saw how I need to depend onhim instead of my strength which could not help.
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