By Elnora Watters.
MY TESTIMONY OF MY DISOBEYING GOD
AND HIS WAY OF
BRINGING ME BACK
This is a true story of the time I disobeyed God and the torment I went through. It is also about the second chance God gave me to show my faith.
My husbands grandfather Bailey was an atheist. He knew there was a God but didn't believe in him. Grandpa was a wonderful, loving man and I thought the world of him.
He lived with us several times during our early married life, the rest of the time he lived out of a suitcase in flea infested hotel rooms. He drank but never in our house and his language was under control all the time. He respected us and we respected him.
A week before he died the hotel he had stayed at called and said he was awful sick and they couldn't take care of him anymore. It was in the winter and there was lots ice and snow but Jim and his brother went to get him. We took him to the Doctor the next day and had lots of tests taken and came back to our house.
The next day while I was washing clothes I heard someone calling my name, I turned around but saw no one. I continued with the wash and again I heard my name called. I turned and answered "Who is it and what do you want?" The voice said "Go tell Jim's Grandfather about me, his time is very short." I answered back "I have but he doesn't believe."
The voice answered again "Go now, there isn't much time." I went back to washing the clothes thinking I was just imagining it and decided I would pray about it.
Grandpa wanted some pop, but I didn't have a car to go to the store.
Just then my Dad came over and I asked him if he would go to the store and get a can of pop for Grandpa and he agreed.
After Grandpa finished his pop he stretched in the doorway and said he was going to go to bed. I forgot what the Lord had told me to do and when Jim came home we all went to bed.
The next morning (Sunday) my folks came over to pick up the children for Church due to the fact we didn't want to leave Grandpa alone. I went into the bedroom where Grandpa was sleeping to get a dress for our daughter when I glanced over to Grandpa and noticed his eyes open, I spoke to him but he didn't move. I called Jim into the room and we discovered he had died in his sleep. I had disobeyed God.
For month's I saw Grandpa either standing in the doorway, setting on the couch, or laying dead in our bed. I almost sink into a breakdown. For several years I lived with the ghost of Grandpa and the knowledge I had disobeyed God.
Although God never turned his back on me, he still sent Angels to watch over me and showed his love for me. I lived with the knowledge I had failed God .
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Elnora Watters has now gone to be with Jesus
Elnora Watters is my wife's cousin.
The Word of God says in the Bible. "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice." 1Sam 15:22 and "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniqioty and idolatry." 1Sam 15:23
