Thoughts of a Servant

I went to a seminar thingy today at Rock Harbor.  It was pretty darn cool. This three week seminar is on Evangelism and what to expect.  I have learned a lot so far, but have also found that I am in the right thinking when I am out and about.  One cool story though…  The instructor shared this, and it is definately worth repeating…

She was mentioning one of the hard times in her life when she was actually thinking that there wasn’t a God and he was something that she just made up in her head.  She pictured him as an immaginitive figure that didn’t really exist.  At the time, she was going to Biola Univerisity, and leading fellowship groups, life groups, seminars, etc.  She was heavily involved, but unfortunately struggling whether she believed or not.

Meanwhile she was learning Russian and prepping for a mission trip to the Soviet Union for over a year.  The language, the culture, etc. wsa something that she was so excited to do, but now she was thinking that she wants to go to this country to share the Word of God with people even though she doesn’t believe in it herself.

About a week before the trip, she mentions to her friend that she doesn’t think there is a God.  Her friend took a pause and asked her to consider: if the funds come in for the mission trip, you will go– otherwise you can stay.

Nonetheless, the funds were provided and she ended up going on the trip. (Clearly a work of God, but it gets better)

This trip (over 60 people) included people going out into the steets and into homes / institutions and talking with people and professing their faith.  But the thing was: they couldn’t profess very loudly because the KJB was still very prominent back then.  The KJB actually had their room and their phones, bathrooms etc, monitored and bugged.  They were transported around town by KJB members and had to be very careful about what they said.  While monitored by the KJB, they were on one mission– each one of the students had a bible filled with bible text and hand written commentary all over the place for further reading.  They had to give this one bible away by the end of this trip.

Well, towards the end of the trip, my instructor mentioned that she still didn’t believe in God.  They were riding on the bus home when she realized that she was the only student that still had her Bible, and it crushed her.  She began to see that God had been so gracious to give all of the Bible’s away to a country that didn’t have a God and was shackled by communism.  She knew that she had made a huge mistake, and that God was more present in her life than she knew, and even though she was in complete disbelief, she would have never guessed how he would user her next.

All of the students left the bus and went into the airport.  My instructor stayed on the bus to talk to the KJB transporter.  They had gotten along at the beginning of the trip and she figured she might as well try and see what happens with the Bible.  She mentions to her the true reason they were over there (very bad thing to tell a KJB individual, you could go to prision and perhaps even torture / death).  And at the end of the conversation says, “I would like to give you this Bible”.

This KJB individual (I wish I could remember her name) gave her a stone cold look, one that would make you sore to your stomach as though you had done something wrong.  One that would make you reconsider going to Russia in the first place– worried about her outcome, she said these words…

“How did you know?!  …  (after a long pause) I have prayed every single day for 5 years that God would bring me His word. !”

HOW amazing is that.  God had used this girl who was utterly doubting God all together, and he used her in such a powerful way as to give this girl that had been living a God-centered life undercover in Russia, HIS word!!!

Faaan tastic.  After hearing this, I wanted to go to the soviet.