Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord,
[Ephesians 5:19 NIV]
Dan was brought up in a very Christian environment, but it wasn’t until he was 14 years old, that he understood the truth of the Gospel and applied it to his life.
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DAN MEYERS:
I was born in a Christian family, the youngest in my family and my father was in seminary when I was born. So I was brought up in a very Christian environment. We were heading to mission field, ministering to military oversees in Philippines and Guam and I was very young.
And so I grew up around bible stories and in ministering and my family also sang Acappella gospel music. So I grew up singing. And I remember initially—and this is kind of metaphoric for life too.
I remember learning the songs, age four, age five, singing these songs and not until I became an adult did I realize the words that I was singing because I learned it in syllables. You know you can hear a language and you can repeat what they’re saying without knowing what they’re saying. And that’s what it was like for me when I grew up singing or singing this truth without even understanding the truth that I was singing.
I think that’s also a metaphor for where my life was as well. I understood the truth because of the proximity of my life being in a Christian family, under the blessing of Christian parents and in that environment and being nurtured by that.
But it really wasn’t until I—the Holy Spirit really opened my eyes to really see what it was that I was living and see the blessing of that and really see the gospel for what it really was, that Jesus died for me and I was in need of a savior.
And I began to see that early on even yet, 10, 11, 12 but it wasn’t until I was 14 that I had really come to the place of conviction, of really letting go of myself and confessing before the Lord my absolute need and dependence on his grace.
So in some cases where some people have had backgrounds where they didn’t have that influence, I feel very blessed to have been brought up with that and still see the very core of the gospel, my desperate need for the saving grace of Jesus Christ. And I was 14 when I really came to that place and scripture had a whole new meaning to me at that point.
It began to have meaning to me. It wasn’t just words on a page. It wasn’t just devotions with the family. It was devotions with the family with the Holy Spirit opening my heart to the truth of that word and applying it to my life.
