God fine tunes everything. I love serving Him and seeing what He will do next. An awesome prayer is this simple request, “Lord surprise me.”
Dr. Bill Grady gave me the idea for that prayer.
On Friday, I was at a men’s group and my friend Dan was talking about the Voice of the Martyr’s founder, Richard Wurmbrand. He was held in a Communist prison for years, tortured, beaten, starved, put in isolation, etc. Yet he still was signing praise songs to Jesus and continued to preach there, and witnessed with love and compassion to the guards.
That only makes sense if you know Jesus personally and experience the power of the resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings.
Dan was talking about Richard wrestling with whether to pray to be freed. He decided that God was doing such a work in him with these circumstances that he decided it was better that he was afflicted and chose to trust God.
He eventually was released.
American Christians, we need to pray, and trust God in difficult circumstances, knowing God is trying to grow us to go THROUGU these fires to purge us. Trials can be our best friend.
That is true for Richard, and while I don’t like the fire, I can say the tiny trials I have had compared to Richard’s prove the same.