A
strange but wonderful peace began to fill my heart. This time
I was for real. I went to my suitcase,
where I remembered there was an old battered Bible - a gift from
my grandfather, many years previously, and carried for good luck.
I asked the LORD to show me something from His Word, confessing I
was unfamiliar with using a Bible. It fell open at Luke 15, where
a boy leaves home and goes off to a foreign country and becomes a
waster. His life is in a mess but he decides to go home to his
father and apologise and ask for a menial slave's job. But his
father sees him coming and runs to meet him with a hug of
forgiveness. HE RECEIVES HIM BACK AS A SON, 
NOT AS A SLAVE!
This
story hit me, as it was just for me. GOD was assuring me that He
loved me and was receiving me back as a SON, whom He had totally
forgiven. I felt so loved and full of joy. God's grace was truly
overwhelming! I went out on to my little balcony and looked up at
the beautiful southern sky, so full of stars that seemed so close,
almost to touch. I'd also read another wee verse that said there
was a party amongst the angels of Heaven when one sinner repented.
I could sense the angels singing then, because of me!
Well
you say ... "IMAGINATION" or "PSYCHOLOGICAL"
or "RAMBLING BECAUSE OF ALCOHOL ADDICTION" or something
like that.
My dear
reader, these events happened well over twenty five years ago and
for over twenty of these I have served the LORD JESUS, along with
my wife, as a full time preacher and missionary. The LORD really
has opened the WINDOWS OF HEAVEN for us!
"Test
me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will
not throw open the windows of heaven and pour you out so much
blessing that you will not have room enough for it." (Malachi
3:10)
This
same LORD JESUS died for YOUR sins and rose again. He is ALIVE
for ever and can forgive YOU and make YOU a new person. TRUST in
HIM today!