I remember a warm summer day in the early
1960’s it was Saturday evening and I had a sudden burden on my heart to visit a
young mother with three little daughters who was having a very troubled time in
her life. Recently divorced and struggling to care for her daughters. I said to
my wife Mary I think that we should visit and ask her to come to church with us
tonight. We were attending a little mission church called The Peoples Mission
where I was an associate preacher and Sunday School Superintendent. We held
Saturday night worship services.
When we arrived we found that she was in a
very depressed state of mind and was glad that we had thought about her. We
talked with her maybe an hour or so during the course of our conversation we
asked her if she would like to come with us to church. She replied that she
didn’t think she could go. And as we were preparing to leave she changed her
mind and decided to come with us.
That night under the conviction of the Holy
Spirit she went to the alter repenting of sin weeping and giving her heart to
Jesus. She went home unlike when she came she went home a new creation in
Christ Jesus.
She told my wife and I afterwards that the
only reason that she changed her mind and decided to come with us that night
she was out of cigarettes and we were her transportation for that purpose.
Needless to say after her encounter with
Jesus that night her desire for smoking cigarettes and her desire to sin did
not return home with her.
She went on to serve the Lord for the next
more than 50 years of her life. She had joy of telling others about Jesus and
the change He made in her life she loved to sing and minister at the local jail
and the churches in her community.
Her life on earth was a shining example of
what one looks like after meeting Jesus falling totally in love with Him and
following his will and purpose in everything that her heart desired to do for
the kingdom of God. Marclee Johnson is now in heaven enjoying the treasures she
stored up there while living on earth.
This video clip shows her joy in the Lord.
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