A Second Testimony

   Yesterday, I reacted a little to one of the testimonies from the service on Sunday morning. For any who might have watched the video of that service and stopped with the young lady's testimony, I invite you, and others who did not watch at all, to the second in that service.

   A young man (and I know, all people are young to me) told his story. It was a powerful presentation, one that spoke of an abusive childhood, an angry teen time, and a wasteful young adult time. In short, it was the type of early life that can take a man down the wrong road in a hurry. Bubba ( how about that for a good South Georgia name) West was that young man, and he has been in our church for some time. I only knew him as a member and one time golf foursome companion, but had no idea of what had happened to him before that time.

   I know all of our stories are different, but Bubba's and mine were poles apart. Home environment, parents, schooling and conversion were all very dissimilar. It is thrilling to hear how God reached down and grabbed him out of the life he was living, but hard to relate to.

   I think of my children as they would have listened to this, as even now I encourage them to take the time to hear it with their families, because it is that powerful, what would they think? And my two teenage grand children, they have seen some of the bad part of the world of their peers I know, but what do they know of this kind of life?

   We surely do not want our kids or grand kids to get so far away from God, that they are in danger of losing all touch with Him, and sinking into the life of depravity that Bubba depicted. God can meet a man or woman anywhere, but, as you can tell from the emotions of that testimony, it took a dramatic turn around in his life to put him on the right path.

   How much better to have put God first in the earlier years and spent those wasted years in service for Him.

   Anyway, her is the web address for the video, please watch and listen and put yourself there.

   http://www.livestream.com/sscc/video?clipId=pla_f3f5bc3c-1c51-4741-8402-521e1872d5a8&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb