God knew why. Red by Zoe Cochran. You can make many plans, but the Lord's purpose will prevail. Proverbs chapter 19 verse 21. As you read these stories, you may be wondering how you can make a difference in people's lives. As these literature evangelists do. The good news is that you don't need to be a literature evangelist to be used by God. This story comes from Rose Miranda, a church member in Sydney who used to work for the Virgin mobile store.
Every morning as rose went to work, she would pass a man who was sitting on the bench. She had a feeling that he seemed troubled, but they'd never spoken. One morning, she decided to give him a copy of steps to Christ. She didn't have one with her at the time, but made sure she had a copy in her bag the next morning. Although she was there at the usual time, the man wasn't sitting on the bench. Rose wondered why she'd felt impressed to give him a copy of steps to Christ when he wasn't there.
As the day went on the delivery man who came in every day, approached the entrance of the store. Once again, rose had a strong impression that she should give the copy of steps to Christ, to the delivery man. Determined to follow God's leading. She went to the delivery man and told him that she had something for him, handing him the book. She didn't know how he would react. Although they had developed a good friendship. She didn't know what his spiritual background was.
You are doing the work sister. He said, what do you mean? Rose asked in confusion. I'm a seventh day Adventist too. He replied, they shared a hug. It turned out that he had not attended church in a long time. Later that day, the man came back and gave rose a beautiful set of spirit of prophecy books. Which now belongs to Concord seventh day Adventist church. A Muslim man was working with me at the time and witnessed the whole conversation, said rose. He was really touched by that experience.
From that encounter onwards rose would message happy Sabbath to the delivery man, and encourage him to return to church. As a result of her encouragement, he began to attend every now and again, once more. I didn't know why I was impressed to bring steps to Christ that morning said rose. But God knew why.
This year literature ministries celebrates 175 years. This mum's devotional readings come from stories of faith edited by Vani Chu and produced by the literature ministries department of the seventh day Adventist church in the south Pacific division.
To find out more about this month's heritage celebrations, visit heritage dot Adventist church. Dot com.