Bringing the Past to Bear on the Present

Fellow Labourers-

As Christians remembering our past is so important to us living out our faith. At the end of the message on Sunday as I was going to change I was introduced to a young man who was under great conviction. He said the impact of the message on him sounded just like when he is firing his AK47. He did not want to go back to that life but he was afraid. One of our faithful brothers was passing at the same time and he held on to him and said "I remember when you were one of us, you were a 'shotta' just like me and look what God has done for you. I need help. The Don is in prison and they expect me to keep the peace. There is a youth I see on the choir that I was going to kill, but somebody told me he was a member at this church and I let him go, and now me come see him fe true. Please pray for me."

Going back into our past may just stimulate us to go for those we have left behind. It might make us restless until we fulfill our purpose. The present demands that we bring our past to bear on it. The harvest truly is ripe but the labourers are few. We still have the illegal drug users and pushers, we still have the prostitutes, we still have the homeless and destitute, we still have the widows and the father-less. Yes we still have the unsaved.

Pax Vobiscum,

Robert A. Stewart