The cross is raised
Ruthie Thomas: When I struggled on a hard road of life, God laid this hymn on my heart
When I struggled on a hard road of life – a road where hardly a day went by without tears – a place where the silence was an unwelcome stranger, this is what I did; this was the basis for the strength to make it through: I went back in memory to where redemption became a reality and a new beginning for me. That place was the cross where I first believed—the stone-built chapel in Cardiff where I had said, “I believe this” and handed over the keys to my feeble life to the Great I Am, Jesus.
I knew back then, as I listened to the gospel message for the umpteenth time, that in these moments there was a supernatural clearing and connection of God’s Spirit to mine. I knew then that...
It was from this revisit that I reignited and reaffirmed the truth and my identity. I recalled many precious and special blessings that God had done in my life and in the lives of those met on...