Just
thought this might encourage someone.
-Andrew
Ebenuwah
On a
quiet Saturday evening a 26 year old man was invited to church by a close
friend he hadn't seen in a while.
As the
young man went to bed that evening, he found himself saying to himself,
“how did my friend know that I needed to go to church? Perhaps my friend
saw that I am going through a terrible time and I need some help.” But
somehow, he just could not wait for morning to come.
In church
the next day, he accepted Christ into his life and the pastor said, "God
is about to do great things in your new life as a Christian."
3 months
after accepting God the young man got married and stopped "living in
sin."
He felt
as if God said to him, “Well done, Son! Daddy
is proud of you!”
“So
God, this is the great thing you promised to do in my life, WOW!” he said
to God.
As the
days passed by after his wedding, he felt free from sin and he thanked God as
often as he could for his new wife and how wonderful married life was.
Then
another "blessing" came his way. Four months after his wedding, his
young beautiful new wife was diagnosed with cancer. “WHAT?” he
shouted at the doctor, “She is my new wife!”
As they
walked out of the clinic, they held hands sobbing, emotions everywhere.
As soon
as they got into their tiny flat, he went into the room and fell on his knees
sobbing and praying.
“Father
God are you there? I need to speak to You! Why? You said blessings shall
follow me from now on. God I am only a baby in your kingdom and I am not strong
enough for this,” he said to God.
As time
went on, accompanying his wife to the hospital for treatment, he found himself
thanking God and asking God first for his wife to find God and her healing
after. Somehow he knew that if she found God all would be well.
But as
he prayed, she got worse and he was spending a lot of time with her in the
hospital. They shared jokes and tried as best as they could to live like a
normal young couple. They drew closer to each other and he admitted to a
friend, "I never knew I could love like this and cope."
20
months after his marriage, his wife passed away, and her dying words to him
was, “You have loved me like I never expected to be loved.”
On the
day of her funeral, one of the songs he chose was, “He Turned My Mourning
Into Dancing.” On her gravestone, he wrote "In this the love of my
God is made perfect."
Three
years after her passing he summoned up the courage to start clearing out her
things, he found her diary, and going through it, he found several pages that
read "I Love you, Honey." and several pages that read "Went to
church today, prayed to God to forgive me all my sins and heal me."
Four
years on, truly the love of God is made perfect as he is now a steadfast member
of a local church and pouring his life to the work of God and he is always
smiling.
May the
love of God be made perfect in our lives. Amen
In
Loving Memory of Yvonne Ebenuwah
21/08/1969
- 20/05/1998
“And
he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made
perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my
infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” 2 Corinthians
12:9
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