It is amazing how God works. This morning as I was reading my bible (I’m in Isaiah presently) I came across verses which spoke to me 30 years ago when Kathy and I took our family to Turkmenistan to open the first international school in their capitol city, Ashgabat. Starting with Isaiah 42:6, it says: “I will take hold of your hand and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.”

30 years ago I had put Ashgabat, ’94 in the margin by these words. This morning as I was reading them I couldn’t help but reflect for a moment as Jesus nudged today’s relevance to these same words. Today, to be part of Celebrate Recovery and the counseling ministry, I get to be part of Christ’s work in helping ones see God’s Light, to help others find freedom from captivities replacing their darkness with the TRUTH of GOD’s LIGHT.

30 years ago I had just begun to find God’s Light in my own darkness. Thinking that God would use it 30 years later as He is today would have taken me over the edge. Yet today, I simply rejoice that God took that broken vessel I was then, molded it into a vessel that can hold a candle of His Light. What a humbling privilege and honor it is!