I am almost two years younger than my sister, we were only two children. During high school I was a bit of a rebel, hanging out with the wrong friends and getting into trouble at school.
After school I started working at a huge factory, doing really dirty work. But I applied for a bursary through the company and then went on to study Computer Science. After I graduated, I continued to work for this company for almost twenty years. I sat in an office full of atheists, I was not a Christian at that stage and their views rubbed off on me.
And I would share my views with my sister, although her journey hasn’t started yet, she always believed and considered herself a Christian, and this would always lead to us having arguments, with her trying to convince me that God is real and trying to proof the Bible. But this didn’t help, I had arguments for everything she said.
When her journey started and she learned the principles of letting go and win without words, she stopped talking to me about God and the Bible, she just kept quiet. BUT she started to pray, asking her Heavenly Husband to reveal Himself to me, praying for my soul and asking Him to make me the man He designed me to be.
After her divorce I got retrenched, then the pandemic hit and while we were in lockdown, I was all alone, I never got married, I was engaged years ago but my fiancé cheated and left me. During the lockdowns I was far away from my sister and the rest of the family. And during that time, the Lord revealed Himself to me, in my loneliness I experienced the presence and call of my Heavenly Father.
Today I play in the church band. I play guitar and record music, music is my passion. I wrote a few songs I played to my sister once. Songs about that “old familiar voice” leading me. She was in awe of the lyrics and couldn’t believe how far I’ve come in my relationship with my Heavenly Father, from being a atheist to finding my Best Friend!
It’s amazing what happens if we let go and leave the Salvation of our loved oned in the Hand’s of the Lord!