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Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 31:3

As the “videotape” of my childhood continued, I remembered that The Holy Spirit had convicted my heart of sin and of my need for Christ at a Tuesday night revival meeting. I had responded and received Jesus when I was twelve years old. I remembered again just how it felt when I first realized that God had chosen me to be His child and how His mercy and grace had protected me all the way through the rebellious years that started when I was sixteen.  

Incredibly, I thought, God’s plan for my life had been in place long before He’d saved me, and had unfolded in His perfect time. He knew all along what it would take to mold me and make me into His vessel. He had given me a mother who would teach me of His love and power. Then He’d used my mother to teach me that what I viewed as faults, failures, and mistakes could be made victorious lessons in my life if I would just give them to God.

I can sincerely say that the skeletons in my closet are now on display for the world to see.  I am no longer ashamed, trapped, or controlled by my past or by my past failures. I voluntarily display everything about my life here with the hope that God’s power and personhood will be seen through my experiences. Because if God could change my life as a result of my turning to Him (even though it took my coming to a place of great pain and humility to do it), I am certain that He can and will do the same for anyone else.  

The times in which I felt abandoned by God the most, He was working on me. At twenty-one-years old, I wanted no part of God. I was living a life characterized by sin and rebellion, yet in His love God reached down and planted the man he had chosen for me right in the middle of it.  

When Dan walked into my life, my search for a lasting and loving relationship was over.  I had finally found someone who could love me and accept me just for who I was, but God still had a great deal of work to do in both of our lives. At that time, neither Dan nor I was active in church, in prayer, or in service to others. Ultimately, God would have to mold us into the image of His Son, Jesus Christ, in order to make our relationship work at all!

But the Lord was so kind and patient, allowing Dan and me to grow up together in Him. From the beginning of our relationship until this very day we have, by the grace of God, weathered many storms and traversed the heights and depths of God-ordained marital love.

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• Posted by: Dr. Brenda Robinson