Another New Creation in christ!

I wanted to share a wonderful praise with all of you.  A lady from work recently came to Christ!  I had been working with her for a while, as she was working toward entering the shelter’s long-term recovery program.  We talked often about the gospel and scripture, as I fully believe recovery can’t begin until someone truly knows Christ.  Her background was Catholicism and she struggled with the concept of grace, always feeling that there was something else she had to do first.  She would say the correct words, but as much as I could know someone’s heart, I felt as if there was no true knoleege or understanding there, and there was no joy.  Last week, she came to my office unexpectedly with another staff member to tell me, with such joy, that she had accepted Christ!  She told me how she came to understand that what she had thought of as salvation, didn’t match up with scripture and that God had shown her the meaning of his salvation and grace!  I can’t tell you how overjoyed I was!  I would see her throughout the day, telling as many people as would listen about her decision, the joy was so evident!  Thank you Lord for using me and all the staff at work to share with her and for allowing us to see the results!  I got to see 1 Corinthians 3:6-8 firsthand: “I planted the seed, APolllos watered it, but God has been making it grow.  So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor.”  Please pray for her as she starts this walk, pray that she will allow the Lord to teach and grow her and that she will desire his Word and truth all the more each day.