wonderment

While I was in Sydney, I happened to check the station email and to my horror, someone sent a nasty, nasty email that I felt should never come from one from the Body of Christ. To say the least, it was scathing but in the following days, this person sent 3 other emails, each one mounting in sarcasm and finally he/she ended by saying that his/her cellgroup were praying that our station would shut down.

It shook me deep down into my core. Who would hate us so much? Is the work of Jesus Christ so difficult that even our supposed fellow “brothers and sisters” attack us with swords and spears?

We never replied to that listener and subsequently he/she has stopped sending those terrible emails. However, a very nice and warm surprise greeted us as we opened the station email today.

“Do not lose heart, continue your radio ministries. Because it’s really a blessings that God has given you a station in such a small island. To use a instrument, a vessals to reach out to the unreach and unsaved people in that small island. Don’t give any chance to the evil one - satan to come and destroy God’s work. Be bold and be strong, for the Lord God you God is with you. Continue to serve Him with a servant heart and to serve him with all your souls, with all your minds, and all your hearts.”

This was written today by a listener who’d emailed occasionally. I still can’t believe how apt her words are. She also shared about her history and how her old self had died and now she was renewed again. Amazing!

For this renewal of self, she’s chosen for herself a new name ~ Ruth Esther.

Haha, God knows. He really does.