Pastor John,
Something else has sunk in! (I love this life.) I love that Jesus sews the truth into our hearts. I really enjoyed bro Stuart’s testimony recently about his being “a good kid” growing up. I have been thinking on it since he told it. To think Stuart grew up doing the right thing, going to school, obeying his parents, but that “good kid” needed Jesus just as much as I did. I have heard it over and over that we all needed Jesus and the holy ghost, and I thought I understood it, but when my sweet brother told that testimony, Jesus let it sink in.
I was talking to Jesus today and I said, “Lord, if I had lived right and had been a good person doing the right thing…” and the spirit stopped me and said, ”you would still have gone to Hell.” Oh, that takes my breath away, Pastor John, because … well, it’s just in there now. I just get it. A plant can be the best plant it can possibly be, and yet it will still never be human. And we can be the best person we can be, and never be holy without the Spirit. It’s in there.
Beth