We stopped and chatted on the stairs of the Capernwray Lodge in Howick at the time and we got to know each other over the week.  He shared with us every morning and evening the “truth about the truth” and it was so over my head, but I new that he was speaking truth.  Not that he was  convincing or even a sales man, but it just rang true and I new that what ever he had I wanted it. He talk of his best friend and Savour, Jesus and that was the person who had not only saved him for heaven one day but for “LIFE” right now. I could see that it was true because he lived it and that was proof for me that if I wanted to change and be Gods friend then Jesus was the only way.

 

I sat on the toilet one morning after a session  and asked the Lord Jesus to forgive me and save me and come and live in me and I so wanted to be his friend to, and I said it a couple of times to make sure he heard me.  But nothing had changed, I didn’t feel any different. So the next day I thought I would get the official stamp after all Major new this savour.  So on the day tip on the deck of the Dayspring boat smack in the middle of the Hauraki Gulf I ask the Major a dumb question and and he new what I wanted.  The Holy Spirit always knows the right timing. So he asked me if I new Jesus and so the adventure began, now  not only my friend but my Lord and Saviour.

 

Sir I praise God for our meeting that day and thank you for telling me the truth about Jesus and the Father. All my Christian life you never failed to tell me the truth and some times I hated that for the light does exposes darkness and flesh  for what it is.  I am eternally grateful and some day we will talk and praise our Savour together again but  until that day, His purposes are firmly in my heart for that which you first told me “what a friend I have in Jesus”

 

See you later my old friend... Rom 5 :10