Waiting For The Coming Of Our Lord?

By Jason McClenthen

This is the short version testimony of a simple man that was chosen long ago to be adopted as a son of God. The testimony is meant to give credibility to the author who desires to share some rich revealed truth from the Word concerning life and 'end times' matters. It is from more of a life experience point of view than a scholarly one. It is kept brief with the hope that more may be interested in giving it a little of their valuable time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Feb 18, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098362034

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Early Formative Years

I was raised in a small Midwest town in the USA in the 1940’s and 50’s and had a great childhood as I loved to play indoors and outdoors in our safe community. We were poor, but I was also blessed with somewhat of a work ethic and bought lots of things for myself, including my first car ($70), with paper route and bowling pin setting money. My childhood also came with some very detrimental (tending to cause harm) experiences. I believe the main issue for me was that our father had a severe drinking problem and therefore was not very much a part of our lives. He would go on binges. Our family consisted of four children with our mother living with our maternal grandfather in order to have a roof over our heads. Our dad was in the picture very little. These things caused issues for me that I had no idea of until I got older, and eventually as our Lord brought them up for healing. I remember saying as a little boy that ‘I was never going to drink when I got older because look at what it’s doing to our dad and family.’ But, at age 16 my friends invited me out to drink and, being a teen with very little discipline and wanting to be accepted by others, there I went. That was the beginning of a very slippery slope that led to several years of ‘blackout drunkenness.’

Over time I have come to realize that I tend to be a passionate person and do most things (that I choose to do) with passion, including drinking alcohol. For this book I will just say that my drinking years led me into a world of darkness and hellish living that would have certainly ended in spiritual death, and probably an early natural death. I was just blowing around in the wind of the spirit of this world and, apart from our Lord’s calling and grace covering me, that spirit would have liked to kill me I know. I’ve also noticed over time that our Lord chooses some very passionate people, but the problem is that until we’re passionate about Him we’re passionate about all the wrong things–looking for love in all the wrong