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by Bob and Debby Gass
‘Lord, I’m Coming Home’ (1)
May 19, 2010
‘...God...devises ways to bring us back...’ 2 Samuel 14:14 NLT
Adoniram Judson’s father, a Congregational minister, hoped and prayed that his son would follow in his footsteps but Adoniram had other ideas. He considered the ministry a waste of time and talent. A self-avowed atheist, he graduated from Providence College (now Brown University), where he met Ernest [Jacob] Eames, a fellow atheist who reinforced his beliefs. Judson travelled the country living what he called ‘a wild, reckless life’. One night he stopped at an inn where the only vacant room was next door to a dying man. ‘I’ll take it,’ he told the innkeeper. ‘Death has no terrors for me. I’m an atheist.’ All night long he heard the sick man next door groaning and thought, ‘I should go to him, but what can I say?’ By the next morning the man was dead. ‘Do you know who he was?’ Judson asked the innkeeper. He replied, ‘A graduate of Providence College. A young man about your age, called Ernest Eames.’ With the words, ‘Dead! Lost! Lost!’ ringing in his ears, Judson returned home and surrendered his life to Christ. As America’s first commissioned foreign missionary, he saw the Bible translated into Burmese and thousands of souls won to Christ. This entry from his diary says it all: ‘In these deserts let me labour; on these mountains let me tell; How he died-the blessed Saviour, to redeem a world from hell.’ The Bible says, ‘God…devises ways to bring us back when we have been separated from Him.’ (2 Samuel 14:14 NLT) Can you feel a divine tug at your heart? Isn’t it time you stopped running, turned around and said, ‘Lord, I’m coming home’?
SoulFood: Lev 23:15-22, Acts 2:1-18
The Word for Today is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright © 2010
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