Fifty years ago tonight I was serving in the United States Air Force. I was driving home from Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Arizona to Garden Grove, California. It was about a six-hour drive back then.
五十年前的今晚，我還在美國空軍服役。那天我從亞利桑那州 Glendale 的 Luke Air Force Base 開車回加州的 Garden Grove。在那個年代，這段路要開大概六個鐘頭。
The Lord had been working in my life about trusting Him to be my Lord and Saviour. In fact He had been working specifically in my life since I was sixteen. I always refused Him, because I did not believe I could possibly live the Christian life, and I was afraid that if I did accept Him and then failed to live for Him, I would be a hypocrite. I did not want that.
主一直在我生命裡作工，要我信靠祂作我的主、我的救主。其實從我十六歲開始，祂就一直這樣在我身上作工。我每次都拒絕祂。因為我不相信自己有辦法活出基督徒的生活，我怕自己接受了祂以後卻活不出來，那我就成了一個假冒為善的人。我不想那樣。
That Friday night I finally realised that without the Holy Spirit I could not live the Christian life, and that I needed to trust Christ and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
那個星期五的晚上，我終於明白：沒有聖靈，我根本活不出基督徒的生活。我需要信靠基督，也需要被聖靈充滿。
A few weeks earlier I had made that same drive. During that weekend, at night, I took the time to visit Huntington Beach. As I was walking down the beach, someone had written in the sand, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” I learnt later that it was from Acts 16:31.
幾個星期之前，我開過同一段路。那個週末的晚上，我特意去了 Huntington Beach。沿著沙灘走的時候，看見沙上有人寫了一句話：「當信主耶穌，你必得救。」後來我才知道，那是使徒行傳 16:31。
That Friday night fifty years ago tonight, the Lord brought me under deep conviction and I began to be sorry for my sin. I wept that night and asked the Lord Jesus Christ to come into my life and save me.
五十年前的那個星期五晚上，主讓我深深知罪，我開始為自己的罪難過。那一晚我哭了，求主耶穌基督進到我的生命裡，拯救我。
Did He come into my life? He most certainly did, because my life began to change.
祂有沒有進到我的生命裡？祂確確實實進來了，因為我的生命開始改變。
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.2 Corinthians 5:17
若有人在基督裡，他就是新造的人，舊事已過，都變成新的了。哥林多後書 5:17
I became a new creation in Christ, with the assurance of my salvation, and later I was baptised by immersion.
我在基督裡成了新造的人，也有了救恩的確據。後來我接受了浸禮。
A week after I trusted Christ, I attended a Bible-believing church. In that church I met a very special person, and her name was Jane. She has now been my wife for over forty-nine years.
信主一個星期之後，我去了一間相信聖經的教會。在那間教會裡，我遇到一個很特別的人，她叫 Jane。到今天，她已經做了我太太四十九年多。
Trusting the Lord as my Saviour has been the most important decision I have ever made. If you have not, let me encourage you to trust Christ as your Saviour and be saved. I do not want to get to Heaven and find that you are not there. Please trust Christ.
信靠主作我的救主，是我一生中最重要的一個決定。如果你還沒有，我想鼓勵你信靠基督作你的救主，得著救恩。我不想到了天堂，才發現你不在那裡。請你信靠基督。
For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.”Romans 10:13
因為「凡求告主名的就必得救」。羅馬書 10:13