Thrust Into The Fire

"Thrust Into the Fire is one man's account of his redemption. We never tire of hearing even one story of how a non-believer came to Christ. How a life was transformed and our Savior counts one more soul in His column And often, we know that's exactly how He works. One man at a time. One woman at a time. One soul that the enemy had already marked as being in "his" column has accepted our Lord Jesus as their Lord and Savior, will know eternal life, is forgiven of their sins and now has a personal relationship with God. But we also know too many stories in which the enemy has chalked up another lost brother or sister as belonging to the evil one. And when we hear the story of how one of these lost souls has come to Christ...when everyone in the "earthly realm" has given up on them as being too far gone to save...their sins were simply too egregious. And in a defiant voice, they may even publicly renounce our Savior with a blasphemous tongue But when we hear the accounts - the testimonies - the confessions of one of these which many of us had frankly given up on - when we hear their stories of redemption, against all odds, we know that God has truly done something special and we are witnesses to nothing short of a miracle. And it encourages us. It reinvigorates us. It causes us to rejoice - for when we earthly beings had given up hope, our God reminds us that truly, through Him ALL things are possible. Thrust Into the Fire is one such story. It's a story of a man who was born a Jew. As a young adult, he became a traveling salesman who succumbed to all of the temptations which face everyone who travels for a living. Not only did he not accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior, he renounced Him. He rejected Him. And by his sinful acts, it was as though he spat on our Savior. And yet, as the author tells his story, the reader can't help but "root for him." Beginning in his childhood, the deck was stacked against him. His lifestyle was reckless. He could have contracted an STD. He could have contracted AIDS. He could easily have gotten into an automobile accident. He could have consumed some "bad dope." But as he tells his story, the reader feels that the writer is being protected. That someone is watching over him. And that his protection, because it is unseen, must be from the realm of the supernatural. When everyone else had given up on him, one had not. And it had to be someone with supernatural gifts. Someone who obviously loved him unconditionally, because nothing in his lifestyle was deserving of such supernatural protection. Yes, it is just one more story of redemption. But it's a redemption that was unpredictable and to many impossible. It's a story of a Jewish boy who grew up living a life of sin. It is someone whose redemption seemed highly improbable. Highly unlikely. But how was he to know..how are we as readers to know...how would anyone know: that He'd been THRUST INTO THE FIRE "