I havent been posting for quite some time. I actually feel like for the past few weeks I've been on an entirely differnt planet. The reason: being an architecture student...
Anyhow, it has really been a blessed season with many blessings and some challenges making devotion time that much more of a blessing.
But just thought I'd share a lovely blessing (of the exceedingly many) that God has really done for me recently. A couple of days ago (27 March) I was celebrating my 3rd birthday :). 3 Years ago on March 27th was the day that I went into the waters of baptism in publically declaring my acceptance of Christ as a personal and true friend, savior and Lord. Looking back I could without a doubt say that the past 3 years of life as a Christian have been exponentially more fulfilling than the entire 18 years I had lived before that, and each day it seems to only get more lovely.
Now having been baptised into Christ and joining the Seventh-day Adventist church, I took a decision that was contrary to family tradition. I am not from an Adventist background so joining the church was quite a decision to make, but it has been one of the best. My one hope though was that my parents would come to know and accept the truths that I myself had come to love.
Just recently my father, who is not a Seventh-day Adventist (yet), has been becoming more and more receptive the to Advent message and the truths of scripture. He had been watching a dvd series of sermons about a year ago by a Ps. Rany Skeete and he just got hooked. Ever since he's been falling more and more in love with Bible truth. Now my fathers always been Christian, he was the elder at his church, founded and chaired the youth society there (1970's) and has been as devout as he knew how, but learning the truth about the righteousness of Christ, the true sabbath and obedience to Gods law by the power of the indwelling Spirit opened his eyes to things he had never known before. Learning all these things made him say something close to what I had been praying for ever since I got baptised: "I see myself becoming a Seventh-day Adventist, and I cant run away from that. Theres just so much truth." This he said after much effort at trying to convince his fellow church leadership (at the church where he was an elder) without too much success.
Ps. Randy Skeete has been in the country for a few weeks hosting another crusade and my father made sure to attend. I got to thinking about it and I realised that the first night that my father actually attended was the anniversay of my baptism. However one may see it, it was really just a blessed sequence of events.
I am convinced that God has been working in my fathers heart to bring him to the love and acceptance of the truth and it is cause to give glory to Him every day. He really does answer prayer, and it was a very pleasant (new)birth-day present to sit next to my father in a church service and listen to his (not so on key :) singing for the first time in more than about 7 years. I know God will continue leading him.
1 Parent down, 1 more to go though...
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