Saturday, July 20, 2013

A Divine Appointment

It’s amazing how God uses our mistakes for His glory and His good. A few weeks ago we were going around apartment complexes and knocking on doors to follow up from a community event. We had a list with everyone’s names on it and where they lived. One of the places on the list was in building C but my teammate accidentally misread it and thought it said E. So we knocked on a door in this complex that wasn’t even on our list of follow up contacts. To our surprise, a Jordanian woman answered the door and invited us into her home. Her name is Susan*. (We had advertised for the event we had the week before and I think she remembered us knocking on her door.)  She has been in America for about 7 months and speaks English pretty well. 

For the next hour, we had a great conversation and talked with her about Jesus. We found out she is Muslim but she seems quite open to the gospel and talking about Isa Al Masih which is Jesus the Messiah in Arabic. Although she struggles to understand the differences in Christianity and Islam, we have continued to build a relationship with her and have helped her with her English. We bought her The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe to help her read and comprehend more English. She’s been reading it and loving it and we hope that it will lead to more good conversations in the future about who Jesus is and why He is the most important thing to us.

I love how God uses everything for good even when we think it’s a bad thing. It proves His faithfulness and sovereignty over every aspect of our lives. Since we have to leave in about a week we are connecting her with a sister we’ve met here to continue the relationship. Please pray that a good relationship is formed between them before we leave and that after we leave that Susan will keep asking questions about who Christ is.

- Chelsea