Faith

(From the mind of he)

Well, this ones not really from my mind, but I did read this and wanted to share it with you.

This story is about a minister in Iran.

A minister and his wife were driving through northern Iran. They came to a small village where he decided to buy water. As he stops his car he notices a man leaning against the wall of the shop with a beard and a machine gun. The wife sees the man's gun and face, takes a Bible in Farsi, and puts it in her husband's pocket. She says, "Give that man a Bible." Her husband looks at the beard, looks at the gun, and says, "No." She says, 'No, no, no. Seriously. Give it to him. Really. Please. Give it to him. Give him the Bible." So he says, "I'll pray about it." He goes into the shop, comes out with bottles of water, and they drive away. The wife looks at her husband. "You didn't give him the Bible, did you?" He said, "No, I prayed about it. It wasn't the right thing to do." She said, "You should have given him one." He disagrees and they go back and forth. So the wife bows her head and prays out loud fervently that her husband might listen to God. At that point, they have a friendly discussion that married couples have from time to time that ends with words, "Fine! If you want me to die, I will."

The husband turns the car around and goes back into the village. He gets out of the car, walks up to the man, and places a Bible in his hands. The man opens it and starts to cry. He said, "I don't live here. I live three days' walk from here. But three days ago an angel came and appeared to me and told me to walk to this village and wait until someone had given me the Book of Life. Thank you for giving me this book."

This comes from Ravi Zacharias' news letter. He also added this about the gospel. "We need to know that the gospel is simple enough to reach a little child and sophisticated enough to reach the finest minds..."