January 8, 2008

The Ultimate Blessing

The popular writer Frederica Mathewes-Green describes her own transformational encounter with Jesus in her book "At the Corner of East and Now". She was on her honeymoon in Europe and, at that time, considered herself a Hindu. Then she came upon a marble statue of Christ in one of the niches on a side wall of a church, and this is what happened:

"I was standing there looking at the statue, and then I discovered I was on my knees. I could hear an interior voice speaking to me. Not with my ears-it was more like a radio inside suddenly clicking on. The voice was both intimate and authoritative, and it filled me. It said, "I am your life. You think your life is your name, your personality, your history. But that is not your life. I am your life"...I stood up feeling pretty shaky. It was like sitting quietly in your living room and having the roof blown off...If someone has asked me a half hour earlier, I would have said I was not sure(Jesus) had ever lived. Yet here he was, and though I didn't know him, it seemed he already knew me, from the deepest inside out".

God doesn't need us to make Him known and bring about salvation. He chooses to do so! You are chosen! Live like it! Don't miss the ultimate blessing!

Love you all deeply!