In God's Underground by Richard Wurmbrand

Author:Richard Wurmbrand
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Faith, Christian, Spiritual & Religion, Religion
ISBN: 9780882643489
Publisher: Living Sacrifice Book Company
Published: 2004-06-01T05:43:24+00:00

14

I spent all the time I could with Boris in the “death room,” and after a few days he seemed to be on the mend. Although his pride would not let him admit it, he was happy to be back in an atmosphere of human kindness.

He nodded toward his neighbor, a Jehovah’s Witness. “Old Losonczi’s praying for me. He says enough prayers for both of us.” Raising his voice, he said, “Losonczi, you tell God everything, don’t you?”

The old fellow said, “I ask good for us all.”

“You haven’t had an answer yet,” said Boris. “He’s pulling your leg, perhaps; trying you out, like Job!”

He caught hold of my wrist. “It’s something to explain, isn’t it? Year after year, men pray for liberty, for news of their families, for one single meal they might enjoy. What do they get? Nothing!”

Boris went on. “I was in Jilava, the worst prison in Romania. My friends were praying, ‘God, if you love us, give us something to eat without worms in it.’”

“And did the food get better?” Losonczi asked.

“No, it got worse!”

I said, “When the doctor treats you, doesn’t he often have to cause you pain? Think for a moment of animals that die in scientific experiments. If there were a dog that knew what it went through might save the lives of millions of higher beings, might it not willingly accept pain, even death? I believe that what we suffer may be serving future generations. Jesus bore His pain, knowing that it would save mankind.”

Losonczi intervened. “All over the world, every day, people say the Lord’s Prayer and declare that His Kingdom shall come, and it does not come. But I think I know why. It’s because the people who pray don’t really want it to! They say, ‘Thy Kingdom come’ but it’s not a prayer from the heart. What they really want is the Iron Guard back, or the Americans to come, or the King to return, or anyone else to come who will help them.”

Boris was listening seriously.

“But the last thing in their minds, be sure, is the Kingdom of Heaven, though they could have it for certain if they thought and worked for it. In my village we had a service to pray for the poor. Everyone was there except one rich farmer, whose pew was empty. While we were thinking how much better we were than he, his son arrived with four sacks of wheat. He put them down at the church door, and said, ‘My father has sent his prayer.’ That man did something to create the Kingdom of God.”

I said, “You’re answered, Boris! The Bible promised that the Jews would come from the ends of the earth and be given their kingdom in Palestine—but the prophecy might not have come true for another thousand years if men like Herzl and Weizmann had not worked and struggled to fulfill it.”

Others nearby, gaunt, earnest men in this room of death, asked me questions about the meaning of prayer and how it could help.

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