The Ray Workman Family: *It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Winter*

Friday, January 29, 2010

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Winter

"Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise."

Psalm 51:7,10,12,15-17

Despite the ambitious weather forecasts, when it stayed in the 70's throughout the day yesterday, snow was the farthest thing from our minds. Oh, sure.....4-6 inches of that feathery white stuff????? And which milk and bread companies paid you to say that? : ) Sooooooo.......I say all that to say this......

It's Snowing!!!!!!!

It is a beautiful 34 degrees, and the snow is laying. (Yes, Brent, it is snowing and not just sleeting this time. : ) ) It started at 3:05 and by an hour later it is looking like this.....

Don't let this innocent kitty fool you! Just 2 minutes prior to this picture, he was stuck up in a big tree in the back yard. : ) He was the last of the three muskateers to be rescued.

2 comments:

Brent said...: I not sure by the photo if it is snow or sleet. I hope Sara is taking better care of my cat.

We have about 3 inches of snow on the ground in Maryland and it starting to snow harder.; January 30, 2010 at 4:44 PM
Ray Workman Family said...: Check back in a few hours and maybe we'll have some pics posted where you just MIGHT be able to tell. : ); January 30, 2010 at 5:50 PM

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Ray was born into a very poor family. His father was a drunkard and went to prison when Ray was a young boy. When he was 8 years old, his family was torn apart, and the children were separated and sent to different foster homes. It was just a few months after this transition in his life, that he trusted Christ as his Savior. At the age of 16, he was taken out of the foster home, and sent to a boy's home. There, he was required to attend the church across the road from the home. He met Wanda at this church, and they were married the day before his 18th birthday. They continued in that same church for 23 more years. In 1992, the Lord used circumstances to begin moving them out of that church, and they began attending a church where the Gospel was preached. Ray started growing in the Lord, and realized the need to surrender his whole life to the Lord. In May of 1993, God called him to preach, and he completed his training at Ambassador Baptist College in May, 2002.
Wanda was raised in a well respected family. She was in church all of her life, but never heard that you must trust Christ and His shed blood ONLY or the consequence would be to spend an eternity in Hell when you die. "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." (Romans 3:23-28) When she heard the Gospel preached, it was much different than what she had been taught all of her life. The Lord was faithful, and continued to convict her heart and show her she could never "earn" salvation (baptism, Catechism, communion, church membership, or good works). After about two months of hearing the Gospel, she trusted Christ as her Savior.

"...old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

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God has burdened our hearts to plant churches in Bladen County, NC. Our highest aim in life is to glorify our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and to point others to a saving knowledge of Him by grace through faith: "and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." (Ephesians 2:8-9)