Christianity rose again!

CHRISTIANITY ROSE AGAIN!

 

Mary stood outside the tomb crying
(John 20:11 NIV).

 

In 1948 a Romanian Christian pastor was taken prisoner by the Communists. For sixteen years, he was moved from one camp to another, brutally beaten, drugged and tortured. He underwent brainwashing of the most diabolical kind. After years of imprisonment, he almost reached the breaking point. one day, the prisoners were given postcards to send, inviting their families to visit them. Their hopes rose as they shaved, washed and were given clean shirts. But no one came to visit. He did not know then that the postcards had never been sent.

 

That night the loudspeakers blared, "Nobody loves you now, nobody loves you now." The next day he was told that plenty of other wives had come to visit. They told him his wife was unfaithful to him. That night the loudspeaker blared, "Christianity is dead, Christianity is dead." He almost believed it. He thought the time of great apostasy had arrived.

 

Then he remembered Mary Magdalene, who wept and waited at the tomb of Jesus. He decided that if Christianity was dead, "I will weep at its tomb until it arises again, for it surely will."

 

The words written by that pastor have come true. Christianity has risen again in Romania.

 

Life response: "Lord, help me to concentrate on the hope of the Resurrection."