The Word that wins

Not long ago I had a conversation with a man who works for the Gideons, the organisation which puts Bibles in hotel rooms, etc.

He told me that recently he was driving in the Midlands towards Leicester when he zoomed by a young man with a big haversack and a cross on his back walking by the side of the carriageway. On the cross the words were written for all to see, ‘Jesus is Life’. Being a Christian and involved in the Lord’s work himself, he was intrigued. So further down the road he found a place to turn the car around and drove back. He was able to stop and talk to this guy. What was his story?

His name was John and he was from Liverpool. Through drugs and the related lifestyle of the habit he had spent time in prison. He had fallen out with his family and had cut nearly all ties with them. But when his grandma died he went back for her funeral. In her old home he had found her Bible and had begun to read it. ‘And what I read there has completely changed my life’, he said. ‘It is the best news in the world. So now I feel that God wants me to carry this cross around the country and just take whatever opportunities I get to speak to people about Jesus.’