Tuesday, March 13, 2012

A food box leads to salvation.

Some years ago one of our Mexican  pastors was distributing some food boxes we had received from CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND.  The city was Ensenada on the Baja Peninsula of Mexico.  The pastor was walking down the streets of  that city with some of the boxes when he was approached by a small boy asking what was in the boxes.  The pastor patiently explained and noticed the child immediately became excited upon finding out it was food.
     He began to plead with the pastor for a box.  The pastor finally explained that the boxes had to be delivered to homes.  He grabbed the pastor's hand and began dragging him along the street.  Soon they came to a small and VERY humble one-room house.  When the pastor entered the house he saw a man with no legs lying on a cot.
     The boy rushed over to his dad and said in Spanish whose translation is "See Daddy! I TOLD you God would give us some food!"  Through misty eyes the pastor watched as the little boy, that could hardly reach the stove, began putting on water to boil to prepare the macaroni that was in the box.  The pastor began witnessing to the man. .Soon the smell of the spices in the added sauce began to reach the pastor's nostrils.  Such a humble meal but SO precious to the little boy that had gone into the streets to look for food.  You see, there are no governmental handouts for people like this in Mexico!
    That night the church had their weekly Prayer Meeting service.  The hearts of the people were touched when the pastor pulled up to the front door of the church and carried the legless man from his car into the church.  At the conclusion of the preaching the man asked a man nearby to carry him to the altar so he could receive Christ as his personal Savior.
     While packing that box some time earlier in the warehouse in Pacoima, California that volunteer did so with the hope it would reach someone for Christ.  In all the boxes sent out there is only One who knows who packed that particular box and who transported it to Mexico.  But, one day in Glory that man will come skipping down the Golden Streets to bump into those that brought him MUCH more than a box of food.
     It SHORE IS FUN TO SERVE JESUS, AIN'T IT?  What small deed have you done recently that could be used by God to bring just one more soul to Christ?  Bro Don

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