He must have remembered them the rest of his life. He must have seen their faces in his dreams; heard their cries in the night. He had watched many of them tortured, beaten, raped, and killed. He had watched them wrenched from their homes and sold into horrible lives of slavery and despair.
And then Jesus found Him, and saved Him.
Years later he would write the most beloved hymn of all time - Amazing Grace.
Why could John Newton, a wicked man who had been so involved in the slave trade, write such a wonderful tribute to the grace of God? I believe it was because he never forgot from what God had saved him. He remembered his sin... his lostness... the depths into which God had reached. He knew he deserved none of it, and that made it all the more amazing.
If you are lost, and uncertain of heaven, know this - God can save anybody - even you.
If you are saved, do you remember?
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now am found
Was blind, but now I see.
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now am found
Was blind, but now I see.
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