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Thursday 31 January
(I) who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy. ... Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. 1 Timothy 1, 13. 15.
Ye must be born again
Rod had been sentenced to life imprisonment for a crime he had committed. After seventeen years in jail a plea for his release was made in his name. The prison chaplain spoke on his behalf before the tribunal.
The chairman asked him, “Why do you want this man to be released?” - “Because God has entered his life, which has undergone a complete change,” the chaplain answered - “What do you mean when you say, ‘God has entered his life?” - “Formerly the prisoner thought he had only human justice to reckon with. But he has realized that he had an account to pay with God. His guilt before God troubled him more than what he did to society. He wondered whether God would pardon the crimes he had committed. Rod has accepted the salvation for which Jesus paid the price. He has become another man”. - “One last question: if he is released, would you personally accept him as a neighbor?” - “Not merely as a neighbor, but as a brother!”
Rod was released. He lived to serve the Lord and testified to the grace that God can achieve in a man’s heart, however wicked it may have been.
“If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Corinthians 5, 17). The truth of this verse from the Bible was surely borne out in Rod’s case.
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