Touching Lives!

Until I became so involved in the God’s Love Outreach Ministry I never knew how important it was to make a difference in someone’s life. Throughout my many years either at work or with family it always seemed life had the same pattern. You get up, go to work, come home, relax, go to bed, then repeat for four days. Finally came the weekend and if you had nothing planned you took away going to work and extended each of the others or just one of them. Of course other peoples live maybe were more involved but mine was virtually that. For a lot of years, a lot of years, God wasn’t in very many of my days. Not by His choosing but by mine. If you read my first blog and my testimony you know I was saved at 15 years of age. Now you’re probably wondering how can someone be saved and not have God in their lives? Well, to quote our Pastor, Christ is as close to you or as far away as you want Him to be. Yep, many, many years I chose it that way.

In the Bible in Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. That was surely myself for almost 35+ years. In the book of Romans 12:2, it states, And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God. I should of kept reading my Bible and renewing my mind from when I first started Sunday School.

How could I touch someone else’s life when my eyes were just on me? The answer I found out is, you can’t. Once I got my focus on Jesus, then I understood a servants heart. In the book of John 15:20 Remember the word that I said to you, The servant is not greater than his master. Though Jesus is a King as Son of Man He was a servant. Praise God!

As I share this God’s Love Outreach Ministry journey with you I also want to share some of the reaction from the lives Christ has touched by my obedience to Him. I will always remember one day when I was doing a program for the Sisters at Immaculate Conception Convent. One Sister told me, “You have a very close walk with Christ!” With tears running down my face I looked at her and said, ”I know.” Not only did Jesus touch their lives that day, He also touched mine.

From God’s heart, to mine, to yours,

Ed Shagott