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TITLE: A Grace that is Astounding | Previous Challenge Entry
By Jim Rannells
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It was the day of his conversion to Christianity---a day of humiliation where in which he subjected his will to a higher power.
As his biography further notes, he was attempting to steer his ship, [which he believed to be lost], though a violent storm and cried out “Lord, have mercy on us!”. God answered his humble prayer and got he and his ship through that storm.
You see, he previously was a slave-trader and had given up on any religious convictions in his life thus far. His biography suggests that he was the wretch and definitely lost, as his first verse attests. His life after his conversion was the result of day in May of 1748.
I can relate to his experience as I too, uttered a humble, pleading prayer to God as I saw my only son in death on May 28, 1995. It was then that I uttered. “Lord, help me!” and my life was never to be the same as I grew in my Faith from that day forward.
Nothing short of the Amazing Grace of God---which is in the lyrics of the song that Newton eventually wrote about his experiences. This timeless Hymn which was eventually put to music has in into words
As the lyrics in the first verse, which he wrote shortly after his conversion attest to:
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.
We should all try to remember--- if we are a Believer in Christ, the very day when we first realized GOD’S AMAZING GRACE.
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Great songs but mainly a "GREAT AMAZING GOD!"
Good job with this, I enjoyed it.
Blessings~