Anne Ogilvie (née Maxwell) was my grandmother’s grandmother. She was born in 1822 in Dundee, Scotland, and according to her Memoirs, at the age of about 18 she accepted Jesus as her personal Saviour, after hearing the evangelistic preaching of Robert Murray McCheyne (the famous preacher who set Scotland ‘on fire’ with a series of revivals during the 1840s before his death from pneumonia at the age of 29).
The reason I believe Anne’s decision to accept Christ was significant is that in every generation of her direct descendants since that time there have been those who have been keen followers of Jesus. Psalm 119 v 90 rings true: “Thy faithfulness is unto ALL generations”.
Now that I have two grandsons, David, who was born in May 2018, and Luke, born in September 2019, almost 200 years and six generations later, I pray that they also will follow Anne Maxwell’s example, and put their trust in Jesus…
Will you pray this too?
Anne’s Memoirs have been uploaded on to the Personal page of my website and are well worth reading!