The Politically Incorrect Wife by Connie Grigsby

Author:Connie Grigsby [Cobb, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-56881-6
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2012-10-04T00:00:00+00:00

A Husband Who Was Won to the Word

In his book Straight Talk, James Dobson, president and founder of Focus on the Family ministries, gives a beautiful example of this. He talks about his paternal grandfather, R. L. Dobson. R. L. Dobson was a good and moral man, but saw no need for the Christian faith.

This spiritual disinterest placed his grandmother under great pressure. She was a devout Christian who felt she must put God first. Therefore, she accepted the responsibility of introducing her six children to Jesus Christ. In Dr. Dobson’s words:

There were times when my grandfather placed tremendous pressure on my grandmother—not to give up her faith, but to leave him out of it.

He said, “I am a good father and provider, I pay my bills, and I am honest in dealing with my fellow man. That is enough.”

His wife replied, “You are a good man, but that is not enough. You should give your heart to God.” This he could not comprehend.

My ninety-seven-pound grandmother made no attempt to force her faith on her husband, nor did she treat him disrespectfully. But she quietly continued to pray and fast for the man she loved. For more than forty years she brought this same petition before God on her knees.

Then, at sixty-nine years of age, my grandfather suffered a stroke, and for the first time in his life he was desperately ill. One day his young daughter came into his room to clean and straighten. As she walked by his bed, she saw tears in his eyes. No one had ever seen him cry before.

“Daddy, what’s wrong?” she asked.

He responded, “Honey, go to the head of the stairs and call your mother.”

My grandmother ran to her husband’s side and heard him say, “I know I’m going to die and I’m not afraid of death, but it’s so dark. There’s no way out. I’ve lived my whole life through and missed the one thing that really matters. Will you pray for me?”

“Will I pray?” exclaimed my grandmother. She had been hoping for that request throughout her adult life. She fell to her knees and the intercessions of forty years seemed to pour out through that bedside prayer. R. L. Dobson gave his heart to God that day in a wonderful way.

During the next two weeks, he asked to see some of the church people whom he had offended and requested their forgiveness. He concluded his personal affairs and then died with a testimony on his lips. Before descending into a coma from which he would never awaken, my grandfather said, “… Now there is a way through the darkness.”

The unrelenting prayers of my little grandmother had been answered.2

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