True Story
Cyril Cartwright......
Cyril was listening to Radio Luxembourg and God got his
attention.
Here he explains how it happened....
As a teenager of seventeen and a half, in 1954, I believed that I was getting the best out of life. I was doing what most other teenagers were doing, “knocking about with my friends”, going to the cinema, there were three or four of these within easy reach of where I lived, going to dances and generally doing what young people did in those days. However, although I considered that I was no different from all the other young people, I did feel there was something more to life and was unsatisfied with what I was doing.
Listening
to the radio
At this time I was working in a signal
box on British Rail and had to work different shifts.
One evening I came home from work at about a quarter to eleven.
My mother prepared a meal and I switch on the radio to Radio
Luxembourg. In those days
there were only two commercial radio stations and Radio Luxembourg was the
easiest to get and it played the kind of music I enjoyed.
After listening for about a quarter of an hour the program changed
and a religious program came on. Although
I didn’t go to church, what the man was saying caught my attention.
He was talking about a boy who had been a real “tear away” and
who heard that Jesus could change his life.
This boy decided that he would ask Jesus into his heart and give
Jesus a chance in his life. The
upshot of the story was, that there was a tremendous change which took
place in the boy’s life and he found that he had a real reason for
living and a satisfaction in what he was doing which he didn’t have
before.
Gripped
by the story
Something in that story gripped me, and I felt that perhaps Jesus could
make a difference in my life and give me the something extra that I felt
that I lacked. How was I going
to find out more about this Jesus? I
thought that the way to find out more, was to find a church that taught
about Jesus in the same way as the man on the radio.
So which church should I go to?
During the time I was growing up, my father had told me about a
church which he’d visited and where they prayed for sick people and they
got healed, this was a Pentecostal Church.
This church was quite a way from where I lived, but I felt that
that was the one I should go to. The
following Sunday evening I made my way to this church, even though it took
two buses journeys to get there.
I heard again at that Pentecostal Church, that Jesus could deal with the
wrong things in my life and give me a life worth living.
That night I asked
Jesus to forgive me all the wrong things I had done, said and thought,
and asked Him to come into my life and be my Lord and Saviour.
From that time forward my life began to change.
The bad language stopped and I found that some of the things that I
used to do, I didn’t want to do any more and these were replaced with
things I wanted to do instead. I
also found that not only did I enjoy life more and found it satisfying,
but I also found that I wanted to read the bible and found it a lot easier
to understand, because what was in it now seemed to speak directly to me.
It has now been almost fifty years since I took that momentous step
and during that time I have, like everybody else, gone through many
different situations, some good and some bad.
However, in every situation God has been with me and helped me
through.
God
can give you a life worth living too.
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