“Make 2016 your year!” says the North Tec advertisement in our local paper.

I don’t need to make the next year my year. Why? Because the year 1958 was “my year”.

Let me tell you about it:

In September 1958 I became a Christian.

The Bible school in Germany I went to – Picture / Bibelschule BRAKE

There is only one way to become a Christian and that is by being born again. That means being born by the power of the Holy Spirit. We are passing from darkness to light. We have a second birthday. We are beginning a new life.

I went to a Bible school, applied to a missionary society, and went to Thailand as a missionary …

The new birth is the instrument that brings us into the family of God. The new birth is the door to salvation. The new birth is the door to heaven.

And I did not make the year 1958 my year. The Lord Jesus Christ made the year 1958 “my year”.