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Back in the mid 1700’s, there lived a man known as John Newton: a vagabond, a deserter from the British navy, a soldier of fortune, a slave trader.
Certainly not one to be admired or held in high esteem. But this child of hell became a child of God.
One day turned from the devil’s list of things to do and picked up a Bible and saw that that list of promises and commandments was where he wanted to spend the rest of his life.
And so the devil’s loss became heaven’s gain for the new John Newton, who could write a dirty ditty with the best of them, now wrote that hymn that has provided so much comfort and inspiration to millions, “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found. Was blind, but now I see.”
A miracle some would could call it. And it was, the kind of miracle that happens all the time.
A tiny seed of faith planted that begins to grow and grow and grow.
It happens; repentance, redemption, a spiritual earthquake.
Friedrick Ruckert wrote about it…
In every man there lives an image
Of what he ought to be,
As long as he is not that image,
He ne’re at rest will be.
Of course, God makes the impossible possible… that’s the way He set up the whole of existence.
Take the wonder of birth – and all the years following called life. You and I here this morning all because of the amalgamation of a tiny sperm and egg.
Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual soul-fed human beings living out our existence on a spinning globe in an unbelievably complicated and endless universe.
Some of you may have had a mustard seed moment, or are waiting for your mustard seed moment when the following is true –
he moved my soul to seek him, seeking me;
It was not I that found, oh Savior true;
No, I was found of thee.
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