TEARS OF REMORSE...

What a wonderful, eventful, busy week-end I've just had.

A barbeque with friends on Friday evening, cleaning house Saturday morning, a small tea party with other friends in the afternoon, then visiting my mom, who is now 88 and still as fit as a fiddle, and then to bed with a lovely book!

But it is Sunday morning that I want to share with you... Sunday mornings we have a service in the chapel at the Karl Bremer Hospital. This is a large Provincial Hospital.

Before every service we visit the wards and share and pray with those patients who for obvious reasons cannot come to the chapel and we invite those who are mobile to attend the service.

Well, this Sunday morning a young man attended for the first time.  A very tall young man, 25 years of age, and a handsome speciman of God's created beings, BUT this young man had, from a very young age, become involved with drugs.... various kinds of drugs and he became addicted to them. According to his own testimony, he was one of the worst addicts around. So much so that his internal organs and intestines have all been harmed and damaged by these drugs. He has been told that he will be in the hospital for a very long time. He has now been weaned off the drugs but he is experiencing the most excruciating pain all day, every day and could hardly sit still long enough for our one hour long service. He listened very attentively for as long as he could and it was evident that he was taking everything in.

Afterwards he jumped up and walked up and down in the side isle. Not wanting to leave, but not being able to sit either. When we went over to talk to him and asked what his medical problems were, he was very honest and forthcoming about his addiction and in his own words he now realises how badly he has been treating his loved ones and friends for years past. According to him his mother looks at least 20 years older than her age. She also has a handicapped daughter that she is looking after. His parents have remained loving and have been very supportive through all of his years of addiction.

The wonderful thing about this young man is that he now realises his condition. He says that he actually feels sick when he thinks how many years he has wasted and how his abhorrent lifestyle has affected others. He is desperate to survive and to start making  amends and to help  his parents.

He cried real tears of remorse and he made a commitment to the Lord yesterday morning, and asked God to take over his life. My request to you today is to please remember him and his family in your prayers. Jesus has accepted him into the fold, just as did the father of the prodigal son in the Word of God.

We were happy to be able to tell him :

                     "that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart
                       that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart
                       one believes unto righeousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto
                       salvation." Rom. 10: 9-10

All praise and glory to Jesus, our Lord!

Nothing is impossible for God to achieve!

Thank You, Lord, for Your saving grace. Thank You, that anyone who turns to you, in faith, confessing with the mouth and believing with the heart, IS saved! We praise and honour Your holy name. Help us to spread this basic message every day, wherever we go!