“I can’t die without God!” - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2024

The tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Luke 18:13.14

"I can't die without God!"
Before I lost consciousness in a car accident, my whole life flashed past me in my mind like a film. It was so quick and clear that I could only cry out "O God, o God, have mercy on me, a sinner!" All the shady things that I had suppressed and wanted to forget came back.

Until then I had always spoken contemptuously of God. The questions that constantly arose despite or because of my atheistic philosophy of life had been ignored. I did a lot of business with Christians, but did not want to be like them. I had found that they were quite normal people with their faults, like everyone else.

In my state of shock through the accident I suddenly heard a cry; it was the cry from my soul seeking after God: "I can't die without God!" Then I lost consciousness. But I realised that I had to put my trust in Christ, the risen Lord. I had to believe what Christians said about Him.

My conscience was pricking me. It was so unbearable that everything in me cried out, "Lord, have mercy on me!" God graciously saved my soul. Now I, too, am a Christian. I belong to the Son of God and seek to follow Him.

"Lord, I thank you for granting me freely your peace and your salvation!"

Today's reading: 1 Chronicles 26:1-32 · 1 Timothy 3:1-7