To Me, This Was A Miracle
I sat in church one Sunday, convinced inside myself, that I might as well get up and leave the church forever, and try not to think about the hope that I thought I had found when I asked the Lord to come into my live.
At first, just learning about God’s ways, was so fulfilling, that I ignored my circumstances in life. But after a few months, nothing seemed to be changing in what I saw as a life with little hope.
I’d come to my breaking point. I fully believed that the Lord’s offer of acceptance, if we call out in His name, wasn’t meant for me. He didn’t love, or want me! I was just about to stand up and leave the church, never to return.
At the moment, the Preacher, who was right in the middle of his sermon, stopped in the middle of a sentence, and called my name. He asked if I was in the church. I stood up and said, “Yes, I’m here.”
He then said, “You are in covenant with the Lord.” He went back to his sermon, just as if he had never stopped.
I sat back down, at first embarrassed, that he had single me out by name in a church filled with four or five hundred people. Then, I began to realize that no one in the church, not even the people seated on each side of me, seemed to notice that the sermon had been interrupted.
This happed to me about nine years ago. Life has had its ups and downs ever since that time, as every life does, but it showed my just how much God does care about every individual person who calls out in Jesus’ name.
Ron Berry
Reprinted with permission from “Flashbacks of God at Work: A Collection of Stories of God at Work in our Midst”; compiled by Mary M. Chase; 1998