Dear Child of God,
Today (17th Oct 2016) an incident took place. I was taking my daughter to her play school and on the way I found a small booklet in some language (I could not decipher the language immediately. It was either Telugu or Kannada) As the book had been in the mud for past 2 days or so and there was slight drizzle in the evenings, the book had started to disintegrate. I asked my daughter to pick up the book and my daughter’s first reaction was surprising look. I asked her to pickup the book, as the LORD had asked me to pick it up. I seemed to me that the booklet was some evangelical literature, but as I don’t know how to read that language, I could not decipher the contents.
My daughter asked. “Daddy, what book?”
I answered, “Daddy’s book”
Then slowly and carefully I turned the pages of the book and found in the fine print stating “Gospel of John Kannada”
This incident brought memories of 2 more incidents
*Incident 1*
Several years ago, A 50 year old was returning home after some errand. An evangelist had given him a gospel tract and told him “Sir, the cost of this tract is 5 Paise. Please give me an assurance that you would read this tract” This man immediately retorted by giving 25 Paise and said, give 4 more people this tract free of cost. After reaching home, he narrated this incident to his son. His son had just then accepted Christ and was rebelling against the idol worship at home. This person had ridiculed his son stating, your Christ message is going to 4 persons at my expense! Son spoke few words and then Avoiding a severe altercation the son had gone to his room. The next day, son noticed that the tract was along with old newspaper lot and no one had read the same.
At that instance the son prayed to the LORD “Oh father, lead me to share the Gospel only to those who you want me to share. Only if it is your will, Oh father, I should share the word.”
*Incident 2*
More than a decade had gone by. The son had shared Gospel only with few people. Only 2 of them accepted Christ. However this man has lived a holy life. Only very close friends knew that he is a Christian. Rest other knew him as yet another Hindu, going by his name. Few of his office colleagues had known his faith, however he had not shared gospel at office.
One day one of the employees working in his office had come and spoken to him. “Sir, I know your faith and also know you pray for needy. My mother is sick and I request you to pray for her. Also please give me a Telugu Bible, so that I can give to her”
Taking that request this man searched for Telugu Bible all over the town. (He was residing in Maharashtra that time.) To secure a Telugu Bible took a few days time. Once secured the bible, he brought to office and when searched for the person who requested it, he was told that this employee was on leave as his mother’s health has deteriorated.
Few days later, this man of God went on a brief holiday to visit his relatives. Back to his work place, he took the bible to office and found that within this period the employee who requested the bible had resigned and got relieved on family emergency grounds and had relocated to Hyderabad. That Telugu Bible still decorates the book shelf of this man of God.
See how a Prayer prayed more than a decade back worked.
Dear child of God, be very careful in tract distribution or gospel booklet distribution. Bible is not any other newsletter. It contains words of life and truth.
I am not saying, don’t be evangelical. All I am saying is. Don’t become a reason for the holy words to be desecrated by giving tracts. Be Prayerful in evangelism and pray for the LORD’s will to be done. Remember Jesus’ teaching “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.” Matt 7:6
I would like to close this with words of Jesus “He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.”
May LORD lead you to accomplish Father’s will. Amen
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