One afternoon I was driving back from the North Shore Shopping Center and was near the Peabody border when I felt the Spirit impress on me some incredible understanding about God’s Law, Sin, and Guilt and how the world manipulates these truths, and that we are all locked in a pattern of sin that has a purpose: to keep us separated from God. Punishment, Forgiveness and Reconciliation through Christ is the only hope and that can deliver us.
This may sound simple now, but then I knew that the Spirit was revealing this to me in a special way. I was overwhelmed with a sudden clarity and understanding. I stopped the car and sat for several minutes at the roadside astounded by this understanding the Lord had given to me. I couldn’t fathom it all at once but sat laughing and shouting giving praise to God.
My thought at the time was to place a marker alongside the road where the Lord had given this understanding to me: the Peabody border. Every time I have passed that spot in the past thirty years, I thank Him for His gift and am reminded of the power of the understanding He gave to me.