Proof

When my Dad got sick a few weeks ago, I was concerned with only one question. Did he know Jesus? Was he saved? Did he know where he was going when he passed on? I guess that is three questions isn't it. I contacted one of my cousins that lives down there close to him. I asked her to go see him and ask him those questions. She reported back to me with a resounding YES! Amen! I was filled with joy, and happiness!

While visiting him in the hospital just before he passed, I was able to witness everything that she told me. He was saved, he did know Jesus, and he did know where he was going for eternity. Everytime we asked him if he wanted us to pray for him, he nodded his head yes. He would squeeze our hands in response to questions about heaven and Jesus! Praise GOD for all of this! He was in control of the situation.

So we had the visitation followed by the burial, then we headed for home. Before we did that, we stopped at my step-mom's house. She had two boxes of pictures, one for me and the other one for my brother that she wanted us to have.

A couple of days after all this, I opened up the box and started to go through the pictures. A lot of our old school pictures were in there, as well as other ones that we had taken through the years. A lot of great memories were relived by looking at those pictures.

In the middle of the stack of pictures, I came across three that stopped me right in my tracks. They were pictures of my Dad being baptized, as an adult. Full immersion water baptism! There it was. Proof that he was saved and knew Jesus. Up until that moment all I had to go on was my cousins word that he was. It was like God was cementing for me the truth that he was saved! Those pictures were in there for a purpose, and there was a reason that I got that box of pictures. I needed to see those pictures.

I praise GOD for those pictures, and for me finding them. Now I know for 100% that my Dad was a saved man! I knew that he was by the way things went in the hospital, but this really cemented it for me! Praise GOD!!!