Another Man
“Then the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man. And let it be, when these signs come to you, that you do as the occasion demands; for God is with you.”
Another man!
When God is with us, things change dramatically! One of my favourite scriptures in the Bible is 2 Corinthians 5:17, which states very clearly:
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
The old has passed away. “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus” Romans 8:1
I remember, when I gave my life to Christ, I used to go to a Bible Study with Jill and the children, I think on a Wednesday evening, to our minister’s house. He was very cool towards me - in fact, a little bit unkind.
I think he struggled to believe that I had changed my life. I had to have a chat with him one day. I said to him, “Errol, what is wrong? Why are you always picking on me?”
And then he confessed: “Angus I will be honest, I am so sorry. I thought you were 'having me on'. I couldn’t believe that you had made a complete turn about in your life.” You see, when Christ comes into your life, there is a complete change and you become another man.
I used to worry a lot about our maize crop. You know, I had five little children. I had big responsibilities on the farm, I had no back-up, I had no spare money in the bank - I'd put everything into the ground.
I used to have sleepless nights. In the afternoons when those black clouds would come across the farm - you know, often there was hail in those clouds, and if that hail had destroyed my crop, I would have been done, I used to panic a lot.
But after that day that I gave my life to Christ, a complete turn around happened in my life. I was walking through the maize crop the one day. The mealies were looking magnificent. The cobs were forming and then the black-green clouds started coming over the farm. Then it was like the penny dropped, the Lord said, “I am in control of everything that you have”. I realized I was no longer the farmer, but only the farm manager.
The owner of the farm was Jesus Christ - total freedom came upon me, I started worshipping and singing praises to God. No more worries!
Now maybe today you need to go and sit down and just speak to The Lord. Maybe have a prayer and say: “Lord, I am tired, I am tired of taking all these responsibilities, I can’t anymore, Lord!” and hand it over to The Lord. He will change you into another man.
God bless you as you have a wonderful day today.