CROSSING AT THE NARROWEST PLACE
A fine Christian woman came to me years ago after a high-powered evangelist had just been in our community. He had had a dramatic conversion from alcoholism late in life, and this woman was questioning the validity of her own religious experience because nothing like that had happened to her. But she had moved step by step with Christ in conscious commitment, and I could say of her, as Marney once said, “A Jesus had been around somewhere in the shaping of this life.” I suggested to this woman that if she could see what she would be like at that moment had she not developed with Christ across the years, then the difference the evangelist was talking about would be apparent. She, like Samuel, had “crossed the steam at the narrowest place” and had experienced the Lord’s transforming power gradually, but nonetheless authentically. The evangelist, on the other hand, had waited until the island of his life had…
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