by Ron Sears
The young student said to me, “In three days I will be 23!”
“Congratulations!” I replied.
“It’s a special day because the doctors told my parents I would not live longer than three years. If I did live, I would never walk or talk.”
Well, that intrigued me and so I asked him to tell me his story. As he finished, I walked away with a renewed joy that God does the impossible. He still works miracles and here before me was a perfect example — a walking, talking, student preparing his life for God’s glory.
We shy away from miracles. When they happen and when they don’t, we cannot explain them. We want to pray boldly but feel much more secure with the added, “If it be your will.” That statement makes the skeptic in each of us feel better. It becomes easy to say the lack of the miraculous must be the result of the request not being the will of God. But, how do I handle the obvious miracle walking away from me?
As my student friend and I parted, I walked past a room filled with students. The professor was before them expounding eternal truth. As I looked into their faces I remembered that the “accuser” has declared they will never make it … if they do, they certainly will not walk or talk. Yet, here they are walking, talking, and preparing to carry the gospel to a lost world.
The halls of BBC are filled with miracles. Each one is an answer to a prayer offered from a heart of concern. The experts are scratching their heads and saying, “We never expected this from them.” Yet, here they are proving the accuser wrong.
Soon they will leave and carry the gospel to their world. Before anyone realizes, they will be planting churches, teaching a class, calming a group of teens after the lights go out at camp, or finishing their last duties before approval for their new country of burden.
Have you noticed that those who become servants serve now? A church planter naturally creates even as a child. David killed his lion and bear before his Goliath. Peter was outspoken before he declared, “Thou art the Christ …” In fact, those earlier events gave both of them confidence in what God would do through them on the hillside facing the giant or saying in the face of prison, “Pray that with all boldness we may speak.”
These students roaming the halls are already involved in serving God. They are already becoming what they will one day be — servants of the most high God. The really awesome thing is, there are hundreds (thousands) of future students actively involved in developing into the servants of God who will be in the halls of BBC. I just want you to know we are praying for you in faith that God will work a miracle in your life too; that you will astound the deceiver who is saying, “It can’t be done.”