Dusty Road • Transformed Life

Everybody knows that falling in love will change your life. Years ago, more than a decade actually, I fell in love, and I fell hard. I had heard about this man my entire life, but hearing about someone and getting to know someone personally are two completely different things. Completely.

On the side of a dusty road in Merida, Mexico, I met him in a very personal, intimate way, and my life forever changed. I was sitting there on the curb, the noise around me deafening, yet I heard through the power of His perfect Word a message I still think upon:

Sow righteousness for yourselves,
reap the fruit of unfailing love,
and break up your unplowed ground;
for it is time to seek the LORD,
until he comes
and showers his righteousness on you.

Hosea 10:12

In that verse, the words "Seek the Lord... until He rains down His righteousness upon you" gripped me, so in the months that followed, I sought Him. In the seeking, I discovered Jesus, and by grace through faith, I sensed His righteousness pouring down onto me. The lavish love, the perfect grace, and the rich mercy of my Savior began to compel me (and enable me) to change everything in my life... to begin to sow righteousness.

In the months that followed, life changed for me. There was a death. There was an awakening. And a story began...

Photo :: "Hosea 10:12" (Merida, Mexico • original February 1996, digitally edited April 2011)