Eph 3:20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
A loud bang shook the whole neighborhood. Jeanne and I had walked to a nearby hotel to have a break and get some needed food at the dinner hour during language studies in Poona, Maharashtra, India. Walking to a Vegetarian Hotel, we sat, ordered and in a few minutes brought us food (it should have been at least a 20 minute wait-all food is be cooked fresh). It was a time of Hindu-Muslim riots in this region of India that had resulted in the Government calling in the Nations troops (the arm was in the streets). Things were bad. A curfew had been imposed on this bustling city and everything had to be closed and streets cleared at 6:00 in the evenings. It was already 5:20 and we had been delayed by our studies. One night the Hindus would burn a Muslim’s business, then the next it would be a Hindu merchant losing all he had to the fire in his business. Night after night this went on as the head of a cow thrown into the temple and the head of a pig thrown into the mosque. That night we sat in the restaurant and as the food came it was cold! It is impossible for food to be cold in a Vegetarian Restaurant. It has to be fixed for you. If it is cold it has been sitting, and in India that is just not good, not healthy and you shouldn’t eat it. With rats, cockroaches and flies aplenty this would have already been a meal for many others in the back room. We quietly excused our selves, paid the bill and started our walk-still hungry back home. We had walked and when we were nearing home about a mile away we heard a ka-BOOM!
What had happened? The next morning at 7:00 we were on our way by autorickshaw to our Language School classes. It was bitterly cold in the early morning chill of the Deccan Plateau, the paper told of four people dying of exposure in the cold of the night. As we passed the restaurant we had ordered food at the night before we asked the driver to stop. I was startled, as I looked at the four storied building that had collapsed one floor upon another and was in complete rubble. Four people had died the night before as Muslims had bombed the restaurant and we had escaped. If the food had been fresh and hot we would have been sitting completing our meal.
After recovering from the utter shock of the explosion, we walked over the scene of excitement. There stood one of Indian employees, examining the total damage. Shaking his head in disbelief, he kept saying: "What have they done to my "hotel?" The roof had crushed through cement walls but each floor had crushed in upon the other. The explosion had done its job, the building on the corner of the Gymkana was destroyed.
Did you know... the greatest, most significant explosions of today are not taking place in Iraq or any other war zone on earth? The most significant explosion of today is the explosion of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Vast regions, almost whole continents that were once dominated by the forces of darkness, are now burning with the power of God and God is getting ready to do even more!
You were born for such a time as this! Your life is not a mistake! God has equipped you with gifts that are essential to this generation! Are you fulfilling God's dream for you?
"For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?" (Esther 4:14)
Are you seizing the opportunities God has given you!
A loud bang shook the whole neighborhood. Jeanne and I had walked to a nearby hotel to have a break and get some needed food at the dinner hour during language studies in Poona, Maharashtra, India. Walking to a Vegetarian Hotel, we sat, ordered and in a few minutes brought us food (it should have been at least a 20 minute wait-all food is be cooked fresh). It was a time of Hindu-Muslim riots in this region of India that had resulted in the Government calling in the Nations troops (the arm was in the streets). Things were bad. A curfew had been imposed on this bustling city and everything had to be closed and streets cleared at 6:00 in the evenings. It was already 5:20 and we had been delayed by our studies. One night the Hindus would burn a Muslim’s business, then the next it would be a Hindu merchant losing all he had to the fire in his business. Night after night this went on as the head of a cow thrown into the temple and the head of a pig thrown into the mosque. That night we sat in the restaurant and as the food came it was cold! It is impossible for food to be cold in a Vegetarian Restaurant. It has to be fixed for you. If it is cold it has been sitting, and in India that is just not good, not healthy and you shouldn’t eat it. With rats, cockroaches and flies aplenty this would have already been a meal for many others in the back room. We quietly excused our selves, paid the bill and started our walk-still hungry back home. We had walked and when we were nearing home about a mile away we heard a ka-BOOM!
What had happened? The next morning at 7:00 we were on our way by autorickshaw to our Language School classes. It was bitterly cold in the early morning chill of the Deccan Plateau, the paper told of four people dying of exposure in the cold of the night. As we passed the restaurant we had ordered food at the night before we asked the driver to stop. I was startled, as I looked at the four storied building that had collapsed one floor upon another and was in complete rubble. Four people had died the night before as Muslims had bombed the restaurant and we had escaped. If the food had been fresh and hot we would have been sitting completing our meal.
After recovering from the utter shock of the explosion, we walked over the scene of excitement. There stood one of Indian employees, examining the total damage. Shaking his head in disbelief, he kept saying: "What have they done to my "hotel?" The roof had crushed through cement walls but each floor had crushed in upon the other. The explosion had done its job, the building on the corner of the Gymkana was destroyed.
Did you know... the greatest, most significant explosions of today are not taking place in Iraq or any other war zone on earth? The most significant explosion of today is the explosion of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Vast regions, almost whole continents that were once dominated by the forces of darkness, are now burning with the power of God and God is getting ready to do even more!
You were born for such a time as this! Your life is not a mistake! God has equipped you with gifts that are essential to this generation! Are you fulfilling God's dream for you?
"For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?" (Esther 4:14)
Are you seizing the opportunities God has given you!
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