GEORGE FOX George Fox was born at a time when there was a lot of religious confusion here and there. He was born in 1624 at Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire. His father was a puritan, a weaver who was nicknamed “Righteous Christer” because of his strong conviction for holiness. George, from his childhood, possessed a gravity and sturdy mind and spirit not usually found in children. As a boy of eleven, he was said to have been sensitive to God and claimed to have experienced the pureness of God’s divine presence. One day, he accompanied two puritans to a fair and joined in a drinking session. He saw the great difference in the peoples’ religious profession and their moral behaviour. That made him to quickly pay for his drink and leave the place. That set him on a three year search for perfection. He interacted with clergymen (ministers) and separatists but got no satisfactory response from any of them that could give him assurance of salvation and victory over sin. He then turned to the Bible. He spent long hours in lonely places reading the Bible and praying. In 1647, at the age of 23, he became genuinely saved. Hear what he said afterwards: “When all my hope in them were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly left to help me, nor could tell what to do, then, I heard a voice which said, “There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition’, and when I heard it my heart did leap for joy”. He soon became a minister, an itinerant preacher called ‘to go abroad into the world’. In one of his messages, he said: ‘Christ has been too long locked up in the mass or in the Book, let him be your Prophet, Priest and King. Obey him’. His messages were very powerful bringing hundreds repentant sinners into God’s kingdom. In 1691, he went to be with Jesus his Lord after a well spent and fulfilled life. Challenge: Are you really saved? Are you righteous or just religious? Are you born again or you are just a professor of salvation. Give your life to Jesus and live a fulfilled life.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 06:46:58 +0000
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