Welcome again to Things Unseen.

This week I thought it might be stimulating for all of us if I reflected on some of the

texts in Scripture that have seemed like dots on the blank page of my life, and when

I join them up together I'm helped to see something of the pattern of God's providences

in my life.

I hope perhaps that you've already started thinking about passages that have shaped

your own life.

The texts I'm thinking of are great texts and that's another reason I wanted to share

them.

It just so happens that they've meant a lot to me in particular.

Yesterday I mentioned the first words that seemed to leap off the pages of the Bible

2 made John 5 39 to 40.

Today it's another verse from John's Gospel.

It was the text of the sermon to which I look back as marking the point of my coming

to faith in Christ.

The verse is John chapter 8 verse 12.

Again Jesus spoke to them saying, I am the light of the world, whoever follows me will

not walk in darkness but will have the light of life.

As it happens the sermon was preached in the same church in which I was ordained to the

ministry of the gospel summit in a half years later on.

But that's another text I'm going to mention later in the week.

I'd been what our forefathers would have called, awakened, but not yet converted.

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