I recieved a book in the mail the other day called Tortured for Christ. It was written in 1967 by Richard Wurmbrand. I'm sure some of you have read or heard of this book. Richard is a Jew from Romania that was tortured, beaten, and brainwashed all because he preached the word of God to the Russians. He is a Romanian pastor who tried to give the Message of Christ to the Communists who were atheists. He was an atheist himself as a young man because his parents were taken prisoner becuase of their beliefs when he was a little boy. He grew up in an orphanage and in the home of adults who were against God. Amazingly, God changed his life despite his hard heart and he became the "voice" of the Underground Church in Romania. He tells many stories of the Russians he had witnessed to. One story really struck me. Wurmbrand met a Russian couple who were both sculptors and atheists who were forced to follow the teaching of Stalin and Marx. They told him they had once worked on a sculptor of Stalin and during their work the wife asked the husband, "How about the thumb? If we did not have an opposing thumb--if our fingers were like our toes--we could not hold a hammer, mallet, book, or piece of bread. Human life would be impossible without this little thumb. Now, who made the thumb?" Her husband became angry because no one was permitted to talk about such things and he called her stupid. But the wife went on to say, "This is an even greater wonder. If in heaven there is an Almighty God, in whom in stupidity our forefathers believed, it would then be only natural that we should have thumbs. An almighty God can do everything, so He can make a thumb too. But if in heaven there is nobody, I will worship with all of my heart the 'Nobody' who has made the thumb." So, the wife and husband both came to worship the 'Nobody' who made them. They were so excited to find out from Wurmbrand that that they were right in worshipping the One who made them! He was able to share that God loves them so much he sent his son to die for their sins. He helped them take one step further in their faith and accept God's salvation. Wow!
What struck me was the fact that they knew nothing about God and yet they knew that "Someone" created their thumbs. They believed that there had to be a powerful, mighty 'Nobody' that created such a little but necessary part of their body. God can reach ANYONE! That's what we've been talking about in KidZone. Nobody is unreachable, even people who don't know anything about God or were never taught about His love. God is amazingly above any barriers we think might come in the way of someone giving their life to Him. I 'm so glad I worship that God.
You can get a free copy of this book by going to this website and filling out some information:
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