What an amazing week!
On our trip we ran into
some biker folk. They had travelled over a 1000km on their motorbikes to attend
this conference. The most unlikely looking Christians I have seen in a while,
but with hearts as sweet as honey.
One particular man drew my
attention, and I have asked his permission to share his story. His name is
Sampie Holmes. There is not much difference between him and the rest of the
’Bomb-shelter‘ brothers, other than the fact that he only has one
arm.
His life-story however, is
far more interesting than the mere fact that he is a one-armed biker! It turns
out that he has only been saved for 8 months. He told me that he was a
complete alcoholic and drug addict for close to 30 years. There used to be
a time in his life, when he was a millionaire, but his addictions had cost
him all that he had...
I asked him how he managed
to get himself rehabilitated, and looking so healthy; his answer was amazing.
He said that he woke up one day and told Jesus that he just could not bear his
life the way it was any longer, and earnestly asked Jesus to heal him, so
He did. Yup, just like that. He was healed. Never endured one minute's
worth of withdrawal symptoms, and although he is surrounded with temptation all
the time, he has no intention or desire to return to his old life. Instead he
is sold out for Jesus and scoots around with the ’Gentle Giant Jesus Freaks’. I
know they don't mind me calling them Jesus freaks, because they identified my
husband as also being one, and honoured him by giving him a bandana with the
words 'Jesus freak‘ on it.
I love it when Christians
are completely out of the box and wholly/holy into Jesus!
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