BUT THEN
Today's reading: Isaiah 41-42, Galatians 1, Proverbs 2:16-22

"But then something happened! For it pleased God in his kindness to choose me and call me, even before I was born! What undeserved mercy!" Galatians 1:15 NLT

Paul says to his friends in Galatia...

You have heard what I was like...

How hard I tried...

How I was the most religious among them...

But then something happened!

For Paul it was on the road to Damascus.

For me it was at a small wooden altar on an Easter Sunday in a little country church.

For my son it was a Sunday evening, after church, kneeling down beside the sofa in our family room.

For others it was in their car.

In a hospital bed.

In a deer stand.

In a Sunday School classroom.

During a Vacation Bible School lesson.

While at church camp.

At grandma's house.

While in the beautician's chair.

God can change our lives in an instant.

He can save us anywhere.

From anything we have done.

We can go from destined to hell and death to bound for eternity and life with the simplest and most sincere of prayers.

God, forgive me for all I've messed up. All the things I've done wrong. All the sins I've committed. All the bad thoughts I've thought. All the horrible choices I've made. I'm sorry. I can't undo any of them. I believe you sent Jesus for just those things. For people just like me. To pay these debts I cannot pay. Even though He never did anything wrong. He died on a cross for my sins. He was buried in a tomb. He rose again on the third day because of the power within Him. The power that can forgive sins and change lives. That's the power I need. That's the something I need to happen in my life. Would you do that for me, God? For me?