Testified

Rapsodie Adams

This is my ode to a man I have only met through those who loved him; as well as, through the Lord who can show you the heart of someone you have never met.

Their once was a man, a Christian man, adored by his wife, loved by his children, and looked up to by the people at his church.

A Christian DJ by trade, he was esteemed highly in the community. He lived his life for Jesus. Consequently, he was a plain man, unencumbered by this world; a gifted guitar player and a song writer, he wrote a lot of songs about going home to be with Jesus. This man was very ill, he had a defective heart and without a heart transplant, he would die.

One Sunday morning he went to church and played and sang for Jesus. He also testified of how he hadn’t felt well, as of late. He thanked the church who had been praying for him. Then he said, “if I should just faint away, don’t you say the devil had his way, because I’m just going on home.” He talked about how our time on earth is so short, then he sang a song he had written called Living on Borrowed Time. He sang another song called Rich in Jesus and when he had finished, he looked out at the church and said “pray for me.” Those were his last words.

This man was my husband’s father and my father-in-law, Charles Gray Adams Sr. He died on that Sunday morning July the 12^th 1987, he was 49 years old. To this very day our testimony is not just that he died, but on that Sunday morning, he went on to be with his Jesus!