I Saw The Light. N. John Melville

      

      I SAW THE LIGHT

      By

      N. JOHN MELVILLE

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      I Saw The Light

      Copyright 2012 N. John Melville,

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      PREFACE

      And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you may believe.

      John 19:35

      This book is the testimony of a self-confessed doubting Thomas, an experientialist who only believed in what he saw with his own eyes and experienced himself; a highly educated and practiced lawyer who had seen and heard it all before.

      The author is no feeble minded adherent or cult follower to the teachings of others. As a hardened soldier and then prosecutor for the Apartheid regime, he followed in the footsteps of Saul in eschewing the Christian faith. That is until, like Saul, he had a road to Damascus encounter with the Lord, followed by seeing the light while under the power of the Holy Spirit.

      These experiences changed his life from night to day. Through prayer and seeking guidance from the Holy Spirit, he discovered God’s calling on his life and became a peacemaker by participating in the National Peace Accord that was the precursor of South Africa’s miraculously peaceful transfer of power to the black majority.

      The author shares his testimony of how the hidden secrets of God were revealed to him by the Holy Spirit and how he relied on the Holy Spirit to conduct him through the Word of God and to sustain him and guide his every step through harrowing times. He tells how, once he embarked upon the Lord’s work, the Holy Spirit provided for him and healed him. Although he “walked through the valley of the shadow of death” and faced many real dangers, “not a hair was harmed on his head.” The author reveals how the Lord’s hand was on him even before he came to know the Lord and how the Lord made the path smooth for him and answered even his mundane prayers time and time again.

      The fact that the change in the author’s life has been sustained for over twenty years since the spiritual encounter with the Lord repudiates any suggestion that his experience was based on emotion or the influence of any earthly entity. The church, at which he had the experience, has long since passed into oblivion.

      In the second part of the book, the author shares the Scriptures that were revealed to him by the Holy Spirit and that guided and enlightened him, in the hope that they will also sustain you, the reader, on your journey.

      In summary, this is the author’s testimony that Jesus is indeed the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6) and the Light of the World (John 8:12).