Where There’s Smoke!
"God…devises ways so that a banished
person does not remain banished from him."
2 Samuel 14: 14
A chaplain once offered a New Testament to a soldier, who said
he would smoke the pages. The texture of the pages of some New
Testaments is perfect for rolling cigarettes. The chaplain urged the
man to read the pages before he lit them up.
Two months later, the chaplain learned the soldier died. In the man’s
New Testament, the first pages were missing, but the rest appeared
to be well-read. Inside the cover were words: “Here is a book which I
once despised, then read and through it found salvation in Christ.”
There’s only one way to heaven, but the Lord devises
many ways of guiding us to that one way. The story of
faith is different for each of us.
Your story is unlike that of anyone else who
has ever lived or who will ever live in the future.
It should be recorded somewhere!
God has an individual loving plan for each of us. He can guide
those who don’t know Him to Himself in His own time and way.
Thank Him for bringing you to Himself and
entrust into His
keeping the one for whom you're
burdened.
"There my burdened soul
found liberty—at Calvary!"
William Reed Newell
