Without Love I am Nothing – March 31
Revelation 21: 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
This is a powerful testimony from a lady in Odisha and she shared her testimony with me. She came from a Hindu Brahmin family, but was seeking after Jesus on her own and one day asked a Christian girl for a Bible. She started reading it and experienced the presence of Jesus when she read it and became a believer. She was thrown out of her home, and then went for a season to work in different Christian ministries. She came back to Odisha and married a pastor, they later had a baby boy. In 2008, when they were getting ready to eat dinner at night someone urgently knocked on their door. It was an unknown woman. She told the pastor someone needed prayers as that person was sick. The pastor went, and told his wife to have dinner and he would be back soon. He did not come back the whole night. Early next morning at 5 o’clock, someone knocked on her door and a woman told her that the previous night, Hindu extremists got six Christians together in a house and locked the door and burned them alive, including her husband!
She was in a trance of shock, sorrow, and numbness. She had to flee with her baby and no one was willing to house her because Christians were being attacked all over.
One night, she looked up in the darkened sky studded with silver stars and seemed to get the words very strongly in her heart, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” She knew Jesus was speaking. The road ahead was long, interspersed with warm rays of sunlight, then storms of hard pelting rain and then whispers of cool refreshing breezes of love from the Lord. When this lady’s husband was burned alive by Hindu extremists, he had no funeral, no candlelight vigils, no media publicity, no sympathy from the public.
In spite of the religious violence still echoing around in Odisha, this young lady is at peace in her soul because of Jesus in her life. Her hope in Christ is that one day, when this is all over, she will meet Christ and her husband, and life does not end on Earth. Once Earth’s chapter is over, a new chapter begins in Heaven where a glorious life in Heaven awaits every faithful believer. The sun has risen in her life again, from a sorrowful season of sadness and moaning. God is strengthening her, and her little son in her faithful walk uphill. It may seem very sad and unfair that after believing on Christ, and later getting married to a Christian, to have this atrocity happen to her husband along with others in 2008.
After she shared her story with me, I asked her, “What do you handle all the hurt and pain now.” She paused and said, “I believe it all happened for a reason, and I forgive them. God comforts me. God is soooooo gooood to me. Yes, I have forgiven them, Jesus helps me forgive!”
Mark Twain “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
Rita
This is the link to her actual testimony…told like a story: https://ritafarhatkurian.wordpress.com/2019/09/19/without-love-i-am-nothing-a-lady-in-odisha-a-story-of-forgiveness-in-the-face-of-mindless-mob-hate/#more-4242
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