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A Sermon

As I reflect on my wonderful conversion that night, naked and cold in a dismal jail cubicle, and the walk I now share with the Lord in His service, I am reminded of many passages in the Bible which are, in some way, pictures of the life I led, the bondage to drugs, alcohol, and violence that were once my idols. And I continue to see the same sorts of bondage draining the life from troubled men in prison and on the outside.

How many times had the voice of the Lord tried to get through to me before that desperate night in 1977, I cannot say. I know that He had tried to convict me long before the government finally did, and I surely must have believed I could beat His case against me like I had managed to do in most of the courtrooms in Canada. But in that final moment of unbelief, when I knew I would be found dead at sunrise, that Presence which had followed me from the day I was born was there in that cell waiting for me once again. And I believed.

Well, Moses and I were kind of the same. He rose up against Pharaoh, whom he had served, and killed one of his men. Knowing that he was in big trouble with the law, he went on the lam, heading east to Midian. When he got there, this fellow Jethro gave him a pretty good job tending his sheep. And he also gave Moses one of his seven daughters to be his wife.

Folks tried to help me, too. I'd land a pretty good job, get off the alcohol for a few days or so, but I always returned to the drugs and the booze--my idols. And it wouldn't be long before I didn't have a job, didn't have any money, and would knock some guy in the head and rob him in order to buy some drugs or booze. Like my Dad used to always say when I was a kid, I'd never amount to anything, and I was doing my best to prove him right.

Well, we know the story of Moses finding God in the burning bush, and how God called him to rescue the children of Israel out of Egypt, and all. And just like a stubborn she...

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