Sunday, June 24, 2007

To Seek and to Save Those Who Are Lost

Rosa suffered with loneliness her entire life. She had four failed marriages and four children—one from each marriage. She believed she wasn't worthy to be forgiven by neither God nor anyone else. Although she had a good job and good relations with her coworkers, she felt worse and worse. With deep emptiness in her heart, she considered taking her own life.

In the past, a group of brothers from the Church of the Nazarene began meeting in her neighborhood and invited her to see the Jesus Film. She rejected the offer, but let her children attend. A few days later, a friend invited her to a prayer meeting in a church and, to her surprise, it was the same church that her children attended. Rosa realized that God was reaching out to her. She no longer resisted the love of Jesus and humbled herself at Christ's feet. Now she and her four children participate in the Jesus Film ministry. They host a small prayer group in their home, and everyone in the neighborhood realizes that God has worked miraculously in this family. Praise God that Jesus is seeking out the lost through His Church.