Like the light of dawn that rapidly dispels the darkness,
God can change the trajectory of our past--our upbringing as well as our own
actions--and direct a whole new future that affects our children and all those,
even thousands, whose lives intersect ours.
I love NY Times best selling author
Joel Rosenberg's story of coming to faith and his parents' testimony and
willingness to see truth. Look at the impact of that decision and take heart
about what God has done and will do in your own lives, your family's and who knows
who else’s. I doubt Rosenberg knew just how much his coming to the Messiah
would impact his Jewish heritage and influence millions.
I recommend his encouraging post about his own recognition
of the Savior and the surge in interest among Jewish people today about who
Jesus is. What a reminder that even if the whole world turns against Israel, God is on the scene changing hearts. He will have the last word and the final victory.
"When my father,
who was raised an Orthodox Jew in Brooklyn, discovered in 1973 — after a careful study of the Gospel According to Luke — that Jesus of Nazareth is the
long-awaited Jewish Messiah, and received the Messiah by faith, my father
thought he was one of the first Jews in history who believed this. He had never
met a Jewish believer in Jesus. He had never heard of such a person. And in
1973, there were fewer than 2,000 Jewish people on the planet who were followers of Jesus.
But today, some
300,000 Jews around the world are followers of Jesus. And millions of Jews are searching for the Messiah and thus reading the Hebrew prophecies . . ."
In the joy of the Lord,
Marcia
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