A GREAT START
Today's reading: Acts 11-12

I've listened to this week's Focus On The Family's recording of former athiest Lee Strobel. His story is an amazing one of Christ's love reaching, God's grace covering and our Creator's power drawing. My favorite part of his testimony had nothing to do with his conversion, but in Mr. Strobel's part in the conversion of a person he didn't even know...

He tells of his finally working up the courage to present God and the Gospel to one of his co-workers, a very hard-hearted man. He spent most of a lunch hour talking to this man at his desk about Christ and inviting him and his family to church the following Sunday, Easter Sunday. After his eloquent presentation the man rejected him with a sound, 'Get out of here!'

Months later Mr. Strobel received the letter that would send chills up his spine and encourage him to continue speaking when Christ lead him to do so. The letter was from a man unknown to Mr. Strobel. A man who was a part-time handyman working at the newspaper office Mr. Strobel was employed by. You see, this man was behind the office divider on his hands and knees working on some loose tile while Mr. Strobel presented his testimony and invitation to church.

The handyman accepted Christ's invitation and had his family at church on Easter Sunday where he, his wife and their teenage son accepted Christ as Savior. His letter thanked Mr. Strobel for being obedient!

Can you believe it? Does it amaze you how God chose to work? Is it hard to fathom that all it took to lead another into the flock of God's children was simple obedience?

"Well, I began telling them the Good News, but just as I was getting started, the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as he fell on us at the beginning." Acts 11:15 NLT

God doesn't need us, He allows us to be a part of the privilege. God's hands are not tied with our action, it's just that He wants us to be a part of what He's doing. God's probably not asking you to do something huge, but rather just take a simple step of faith and obedience.

Then? Well, then you can sit back and watch His completion, His restoration, His complete re-do of another's life--maybe your own!