Leaning into God When Life Is Pushing You Away by Robert Anthony Schuller & William Kruidenier

Author:Robert Anthony Schuller & William Kruidenier [SCHULLER, ROBERT ANTHONY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL012000
ISBN: 9780446558358
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2009-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

Part 4

Holding On—Hoping in God

16. In Whom Do You Trust? Getting to Know Your Power Source

IT WAS 1978, and a civil war was raging in Nicaragua. But that didn’t stop Arthur Blessitt from going there. Arthur Blessitt has carried his twelve-foot wooden cross into various dangerous hot spots around the world in order to tell people about Jesus. In fact, he has carried his cross into 315 countries (52 of the countries were at war), walking 38,102 miles and being arrested or jailed 24 times (not for crimes), since 1968.

Nicaragua was definitely a dangerous place to go in 1978. The Sandanista guerrillas were at war with the Somoza government dictatorship; death and destruction were everywhere. But Arthur Blessitt walked down the Pan American Highway through the middle of the nation, talking to anyone who would listen about the good news of the gospel. His two friends were riding in a pickup truck full of supplies and pulling a small travel trailer that they slept in at night. The natives warned them to keep moving—not to spend the night in the area because of the danger of roving bands of soldiers. But they stayed and pulled off the road to sleep.

In the middle of the night, Blessitt was awakened by someone banging loudly on their trailer door, shouting, “Narcotica policia!” He looked out the small window to find a gun aimed back at him. He opened the door and several men with guns rushed into the trailer. The leader motioned with his pistol for Blessitt to go outside, which he did—but not before telling his friend, “Pray, Mike. Pray.”

Blessitt didn’t know who the men were, but he knew they had guns and were serious. In his broken Spanish, he began to witness to the men, telling them that God loved them and would come into their hearts—to no avail. The men pushed Blessitt up against the side of his truck and then lined up about fifteen feet away. He suddenly realized he was standing in front of a firing squad!

Deciding that if he was going to die, he at least wanted to be shot while distributing God’s Word, he turned and opened the door of the truck and reached for a case of Spanish language Bibles, setting it on the ground. The men rushed toward him, shouting, “No! No!” while he knelt on the ground trying to break the tape that sealed the box of Bibles.

At this point in the story, Arthur Blessitt would say later, he doesn’t know what happened. He looked up from the ground to find the armed men sprawled on the ground all around him. The leader of the band was actually lying inside the door of the trailer with his feet sticking out. All the men were dazed and confused. Blessitt tried to offer them water and a Bible, but they all got up and ran off into the night.

When he returned to the trailer, his friends were amazed to see Blessitt alive. One of them said they heard the sound of flesh on flesh and thought the armed men were beating their friend.

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