Is there more to life than this?

Jack's Life Story

(interviewed by Al Thompson)

 

QUESTION: Your friends say you have had a remarkable change in your life.

ANSWER: I used to drink heavily; my life was filled with junk, disappointment and mental garbage. Throughout my years in broadcasting, business dealings, and singing in night clubs, I was a miserable person. I don’t know how my dear wife put up with me. Now I praise God for a new day. I wake up in the morning and head out into the world with a new attitude and a new transformed mind.

QUESTION: How did this change come about?

ANSWER: My doctor said to me in the hospital, “Jack, if you don’t stop drinking you are going to die.” This was the day before I was scheduled for surgery. He walked out. I was disgusted about what he had said. After surgery I would wake up and sit on the edge of my bed and pray, “Lord, not today, don’t let me drink anymore.” God answered my prayers. I was driving home from the Okanagan and on the road near Monte Lake I heard a voice in my head saying, drive into the lake and end it
all. However, I had an envelope for a client in Kamloops. My dad used to say, “Finish the job.” I decided to keep driving to Kamloops, deliver the envelope and finish the job. While in high school I dated a girl named Annette. A few years ago she and her husband, Don, moved to Kamloops. Annette was a Christian when I dated her and I respected her. I understood where she was coming from because my mother used to take me to Sunday School as a child.

Don said to me one day, “Jack, when are you going to accept Christ?” I replied I would do it now if Annette were here. Don said she will be here in five minutes. I was in my car and I started to play a song Annette had recorded entitled, ‘Sweet Anointing’. I started to cry; Jesus was working in me. There was a knock on the window. I saw Don’s head. He climbed in and in a few minutes Annette climbed in the back seat. They said, why don’t you give your life to Christ NOW. I said yes and began praying the sinner’s prayer, “Oh Jesus, I have sinned and I ask your forgiveness. I ask you to come into my life as my Lord and Saviour.” At that moment it was like a bucket of warm water just flowed over me. Ifelt so clean and an instant inner peace came over me. There was an overwhelming sense of joy and happiness. I went home and told my wife, Ann. We went for a drive and cried with joy. She and my mother had been praying for me for years. What a joy to hug my wife; everything in my life was different.

For once I came home and I wasn’t drunk.

Later I told my mother. She said, “It’s a miracle Jack accepted Christ.” I responded, “Mom, it’s a miracle that Christ accepted me.”

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