One last note before retiring. I was such a great sinner for so long only divine intervention can even begin to explain what I am today – an honest man who works tirelessly six days a week at the most menial tasks (first posted Friday, May 11, 2018 when I was 74 years old) and a man of faith and absolute trust in God. Even when a physician and oncologist informed me that I had cancer and needed to have surgery immediately or submit to chemotherapy or radiation therapy within a matter of days because my biopsy revealed some of the cancer cells were highly likely to metastasize and spread cancer to other organs of my body, without any hesitation whatsoever I told the doctor, “I’ll trust myself to the Lord to heal me.” By that statement and that act I was trusting my very life to the intervention of Jesus Christ. I could do so without hesitation as I had submitted myself to total obedience to the Lord several years before and had previously been healed of COPD, bronchitis and gastric reflux. I also was well acquainted with the many promises made to the faithful in God’s sacred word.
God would have been perfectly just and fair had He ended my life decades ago – even in my twenties, thirties or forties or beyond. Time and time again He moved to preserve my life when I was in imminent jeopardy of dying in various situations. I have no doubt that it was divine intervention that saved me each time – and I am talking about on a dozen or more occasions.
The apostle Paul writes that the gifts and callings of God are without repentance – that is God never changes His mind in such matters. We can disqualify ourselves from service to the Most High, but even then God can pour out His grace and mercy, His power and Spirit and turn us around, lifting us up from the cesspools of degradation in which we have fallen, cleanse us, forgive us, and send us forth in a new field of service. And that is what He did for me.
I see that my website (an old website now discontinued) was recently visited by someone in Lagos, Nigeria. They viewed my article “A Man Called Gideon.” This posting seems to be a favorite of some. It tells of how God can win battles even an army cannot win and He can win them with just a handful of men. And God can do with one lone individual what ten thousand cannot do. Do not limit God. It is one of the greatest mistakes a human being can ever make.
Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley