God Opens Doors Wide Open

For the sake of not really being able to explain in a concise way how my students know where I am spiritually and what I believe, I will just say that they have a general idea. It mainly has come up during times that we have shared common misconceptions about our cultures and so I have shared a lot of misconceptions that they have about Christians and what a true Christian is. The idea that most of them have is Catholicism. Anyway, two of my students today remained after class and began to ask me questions. To make a long story short God gave me the opportunity to pretty much walk them through God's redemptive plan for mankind throughout history. Pretty much a "Creation to Christ". We talked for about an hour and a half to two hours and most of the time I was talking answering their question but mainly proclaiming Jesus Christ as God who came to this earth and died for their sins as a perfect once for all sacrifice. It was amazing and God gave me the words to speak. Another opportunity came about this evening. Another one of my students wanted to get together and spend time with me so we did. We spent a couple hours together and during the course of that time I had the opportunity to share with him the motives for why I do what I do and my desire to serve Christ and love Christ and know Christ and then share that with other people. So I thank God for that opportunity as well. This student that I spent the evening with is a very real person. He is very genuine and very dedicated to Islam. His commitment to what he believes is much stronger than I see in a lot of American Christians and it caused me to think. A lot of Muslims in this city neglect to pray except maybe on Friday but he prays five times a day. There was actually a point this evening when we were walking be a Mosque in the city and he excused himself to go in and pray for a few minutes because it was at the point of one of the prayer times during the day. As I stood outside the Mosque waiting for him I couldn't help but cry out to God for more American Christians that are totally abandoned to the cause of Christ as well as realizing the only thing that is going to penetrate a heart so given to darkness so given to something that is not the truth so deceived is the Holy Spirit opening his eyes to the truth of the gospel. These people need the truth. Desperately!!!