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Date Posted: 12:16:16 07/02/08 Wed
Author: Mickey R Mullen
Subject: Drawn to the Lord

St John 6;37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. 44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

At the time I was saved it was probably the lowest point in my life. In verse 44 I was being drawn to believe in Jesus which is the requirment of being saved. You must be aware that just to believe is not enough. But it is the catalyst that triggers the Spirit to act. As I go further in the chapter I will discuss what it means to be born again.

It was a year after I had gotten out of the Navy with a honorable discharge. I had bought a commercial business that consisted of a five stall coin car wash, restaurant, fish market and a small automotive garage. The buildings only, I had to send the owner of the land a lease payment each month. With my bad habits of drinking, smoking, etc. I had to get another job building drill presses in Los Angelos California. The car was a wreck, and I was living in a bedroom with a bath attached. Everything I ate was at a restaurant. The Hot water tank, trying to light it burned the skin off my left hand, of course I never had any medical insurance. The business was heading for bankruptcy.

At the time the only thing I could do was look up to the Lord. I never had any friends or relatives to contend with that was probably a asset instead of a detriment. If one is saved from his oldself how can you have the same unsaved friends you had before? You can't and shouldn't, you become a new creature. As the verse implies ( I will raise him up at the last day.) So it is the Father that draws one to him, but you still have freewill to chose.

One day I was in a Realestate Brokers Office to get a new tenant for the Restaurant and the secretary ask me, "has God been good to you?" She gave me her churches address but I only went there a couple times in the two months that I was seeking the Lord, on Sunday night, setting on the back seat. One night I found out God was real, without ever reading a word in the Bible, to speak of.

Lets say you have a wife and three children etc., I have no way of knowing how the Lord deals with this situation.

The next verse I will deal with another day is 6;38

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