On April 21, 2010, I sat down on my green front porch in West Texas, gazing over my vegetable garden, and read this:
After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace [who imparts His blessing and favor], who called you to His own eternal glory in Christ, will Himself complete, confirm, strengthen, and establish you [making you what you ought to be]. 1Peter 5:10
So many of us are waiting for a thunderbolt moment, but this wasn’t that. It was more like a fresh awareness, a breeze of possibility that blew through my mind.
I got up, jotted that scripture down, and stuck it by my bed. Sitting there, still a little stunned, I said out loud to God and myself:
“If that scripture is true, then it’s not my job to figure out who I’m supposed to be. It’s yours, and I just have to follow you.”
Here I am 11 years later, sitting on my porch in Florida with my bible and coffee, knowing deeper than I know anything, there is no going back, because He, Jesus, has the words of eternal life.
Where else can I go?
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