Inaugural Post

This journal (I don’t like to term “blog” as it is contemporary without being meaningful; it smacks of a culture that is being driven by its technology instead of using its communications technologies to thoughtfully and reflectively observe and comment on both the good and the bad of its own devising) is a new attempt to document—at least sporadically—the progress of my journey through life as a Reformed Christian. I also have a website which you may find of interest. It is located at New Vineyard.

It is somewhat momentous (to me at any rate), although entirely unplanned, that today marks the seventh anniversary of my becoming a Christian. Well, I don’t know if that is absolutely accurate, as I believe that prior to this date seven years ago I was a backslidden believer, wandering around in the wilderness. I believe that I was truly converted when I was six years old during a Christmas pageant at church. I won’t bore you with details—at least not now—but suffice to say that my own wilfulness prevented me from embracing Christ as I ought to have done. Notwithstanding, He embraced me and never let me go. However, it was His good pleasure to permit me to wander and, like the Prodigal Son of the parable (Luke 15:11-32) I did wander and turned my back on my precious Saviour. But the Lord is quick to forgive and seven years ago today, after wandering for forty years (yes, forty years, I’m not joking) He finally took me to Himself and said to me “Lo, I have been with you all your days, and in all that time you have been mine though you knew it not.”

It was then that I began faintly to realize what God had intended for me all along and I knew whom I truly was and for what He had saved me. So on that day, May 24, 1999, I threw away all my hesitation, all my fear and all my pride. I knew that Jesus had claimed me this last time. I could no longer deny Him, I could not turn away from Him a second time. I could no longer live a backslider’s life. He had come to claim His own, He who had died on the cross in order that I might be reconciled to God.

So Dear reader, perhaps you can be “Faithful” to my “Christian” as we make our progress together as Pilgrims in this world to the world to come.

I can’t promise to be faithful in turn, always having a sagacious comment or a pithy proverb with which to nourish you, but I will try to dependable and trustworthy to the degree I’m able as an old fallen sinner. And when I do turn away and forget my necessary labours, I do but ask a small portion of forgiveness, not for my sake but for the sake of Him who shed His blood so that I may live.

Soli Deo Gloria!