Seize the Moment - Day 144 - First Baptist Church

Seize the Moment – Day 144

Posted on Aug 8, 2020 by Ken Durham in Devotions, General |

Amazing Grace

2 Corinthians 9:8 “And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.”

One of the favorite hymns of the church was written by someone who had a very dark start in their life. John Newton was a rough sailor who engaged in capturing and selling slaves around the world. But during a very fierce storm and fearful of shipwreck, the grace of God moved on him to read The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis, and it led to his genuine conversion and dramatically changed his life.

Feeling a call to ministry and influence by John & Charles Wesley and George Whitefield, he became the ordained minister of a small Anglican church in Olney, England. He used simple heart-felt hymns in his services, leading him to write “Amazing Grace” with his friend William Cowper in 1779. He never ceased to marvel at the grace of God that transformed him so completely, even proclaiming shortly before his death “My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things…that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Savior!”

Seize the moment today by thinking about the magnitude of God’s grace. “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me…”

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Seize the Moment – Day 144