We Never Know What God Will Do

Rodger and I have just returned from a trip that took us over 4,575 miles across the country and back again. There was a prophesy conference in Minnesota that we attended with a dear friend. We had the pleasure of staying with she and her husband for several days while there. It was such a blessing to spend time with other believers who were in agreement about many if not most things.

While on our way back from the trip we stopped to visit a small town called New Munich Minnesota, 320 people in residence. As we drove around the few and short streets of that flat country town we came across a man who was working in the yard. Stopping to visit with the man we discovered that he was the keeper of the key to the nearby Catholic church. By near by I mean within a block of this man's home. He had the keys to the church and was one of the keepers of the large clock that was displayed on the outside and top of the church. He had the job, along with one other man, of winding that clock twice a day.

Rodger was looking for the old church in that town in which his great grandfather had been married.

Our new friend who had the keys to the church building, took us up to see the clock and show us how it was to be wound. We went way up to the top of the building in the clock chamber to watch him wind it. It was as though we were watching the winding of Big Ben in London. Very large cables were wound around the drums that held them to keep that old clock running all these years more than 100 now. The church building was constructed in 1910.

It has been a long time since I saw a building so ornate and beautiful as this one was. However, I felt a sadness as we looked around at all the lavish stained glass windows and the idols that stood everywhere in it. I thought throughout the pleasant visit with this lovely unsaved Catholic man, that I wish we could share the gospel with him. Then it happened! Our conversation led us into why we were in Minnesota and the end times prophesy of Revelation. The man asked us what the "rapture and the tribulation" were; he had never heard of this.

We stood in the Catholic church for another half hour sharing the clear gospel as the man listened intently even excited about what he had heard. He told us when it was time to leave that he felt that our meeting was of God. As far as we know he had not trusted Christ then, but I believe he was right when he said he thought the chance meeting was not chance at all.

Please pray for Dan in New Munich Minnesota! I believe he will become born again and if he does, there is an entire town that will follow his lead.

We never know why God takes us where we go, but we can be sure He has a purpose and it will glorify Him.

Mark 16:15-16 "5 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.…"