God's Word Will Not Return Void
A missionary told me
this story:
A Christian man named
Kendal (not his real name), was traveling on a train with some gospel
literature to distribute in China. He couldn’t make his connections and was
concerned about getting caught with it. It’s illegal in China to have that
literature and he could go to prison.
He prayed for wisdom
and felt led to go back to the train’s bathroom, which had a hole in the floor.
He dropped the papers through the hole, which fell on the train tracks.
Kendal felt terrible about throwing away the gospel papers and wondered if he
had denied Jesus.
Two years later, he
was back in China and speaking in an underground church. He told the people how
he had smuggled in the gospel literature and dropped it down a hole in the
floor of the train. Just then a man
jumped up and said, “If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t be a Christian! One
day I was walking and found some papers about Jesus on the railroad tracks. I
read them and accepted Jesus into my life.”
God had led him to
put those papers down the hole to accomplish His will. Isaiah 55:10-11 says, “For
as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without
watering the earth… so will My word be which goes forth from My mouth. It will not return to Me empty, without
accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.”
When I was in
college, I shared the gospel with another student, who didn’t seem interested
in what I said. Thirty years later, he
wrote me saying he remembered what I had said to him and that he became a
Christian! Let this be a word of encouragement whenever you share the
gospel with someone and don’t see immediate results. God’s Word will not return
void but will accomplish what God desires.
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