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Love Like You Mean It
'Love cares more for others than for self' 1 Corinthians 13:4
Gram Seed lay dying in a Middlesbrough hospital: 'I'd become the tramp that nobody sees,' Gram recalls, 'from a broken family living in a rough part of town. A life of crime allowed me to be both rich and powerful but inside I was hurting, insecure and angry.
After the confinement of prison walls I ... made a public bench my home ... I became so desperate I wanted to end my life, so I slashed my wrists ... but I was soon back on my bench ... It wasn't long after that that I collapsed and was put on a life-support machine.'
Gram's life would have ended there and then if it wasn't for two young guys who acted on God's words: 'love cares more for others than of self.' Not only did they go to Gram when he lived on that bench telling him , 'Jesus loves you,' they went to visit him in hospital every day for two months. They prayed for him and read the Bible to him.
'When I got out, I gave my life to the Lord,' says Gram. 'In God's amazing providence I now head up Sowing Seeds Ministries which aims to help ex-offenders, just like me, not only to find a better way of life but to realise that true freedom can only be found through the love of a Saviour, and that Saviour is my Lord and my Friend Jesus Christ ... every time I walk past that bench I thank God that He knew my address and sent someone to tell me about Jesus.'
written by Bob Gass
'Love cares more for others than for self' 1 Corinthians 13:4
Gram Seed lay dying in a Middlesbrough hospital: 'I'd become the tramp that nobody sees,' Gram recalls, 'from a broken family living in a rough part of town. A life of crime allowed me to be both rich and powerful but inside I was hurting, insecure and angry.
After the confinement of prison walls I ... made a public bench my home ... I became so desperate I wanted to end my life, so I slashed my wrists ... but I was soon back on my bench ... It wasn't long after that that I collapsed and was put on a life-support machine.'
Gram's life would have ended there and then if it wasn't for two young guys who acted on God's words: 'love cares more for others than of self.' Not only did they go to Gram when he lived on that bench telling him , 'Jesus loves you,' they went to visit him in hospital every day for two months. They prayed for him and read the Bible to him.
'When I got out, I gave my life to the Lord,' says Gram. 'In God's amazing providence I now head up Sowing Seeds Ministries which aims to help ex-offenders, just like me, not only to find a better way of life but to realise that true freedom can only be found through the love of a Saviour, and that Saviour is my Lord and my Friend Jesus Christ ... every time I walk past that bench I thank God that He knew my address and sent someone to tell me about Jesus.'
written by Bob Gass
