Brand New News Leads to a Brand New Life

Usually on mobile clinic, my job is to see patients and my Thai staff shares the Gospel with everyone when they pick up their meds.  But one mobile clinic day recently, it was about noon and many of my staff were at lunch, so I handed over the doctor role to the capable American docs who were with me and went to help pass out meds and share Christ with the line of people waiting.  While in that role, I talked to a 39 year old man who lived near the Cambodian border.  I asked if he had heard about God before.  He looked at me perplexed and said “no.”  I explained that it was God that had made the world and had given us a conscience so that we would flee sin and try to know Him.  He had a host of questions – he had never heard the story before.  I finished sharing, and asked if he was ready to submit to God as Lord and ask His forgiveness for sins.  Again, the perplexed look came over him – only now he was even more troubled.  He was weighted by the truth that he had just heard…but he looked up at me and said, “I’ve never known God was out there.  I’ve never even considered that there might be a God.”  He said it again, almost to himself, “I’ve never even considered that God could exist.”  “What should I do?”  He asked me and then looked at the ground.  It was a life changing – eternity changing moment.  Just an hour earlier, his biggest problem in life was a recurring headache.  Now he weighed changing his entire belief system and all his life’s priorities on the basis of hearing news from a stranger.  It took him some time to decide, but he could not overcome his need.  I prayed for him and then he bowed his head and prayed out loud, repenting of his sin, confessing his belief in God, and asking to belong to God from then on.  It was his first time hearing the Message, and he took full advantage.  Praise the Lord.