Gospel of hope

I did not know Daynaris, nor his city, nor his relatives, nor his house. But there the Lord took me, accompanied by brothers from the local church. Daynaris opened the door to her room with difficulty. And before I uttered a word he told me. -Don't waste your time sir; long ago I lost all hope -. My heart swelled when I contemplated the face of that beautiful 35-year-old woman, with a 9-year-old daughter, abandoned by her husband, bedridden in her wheelchair due to a fatal accident that would condemn her forever to a painful immobility and deformity of her lower limbs. "Hope is the last thing to be lost," I answered mechanically, as if trying to alleviate her grief with this saying from the popular proverb.

All the miracles of Jesus came to mind. The story of the paralytic brought to the feet of Jesus by his friends narrated in the Gospel, the story of the apostle Peter and the paralytic Aeneas in the city of Lida (Acts 9). And the story of my brother Idalberto, a brother of faith who fell in his youth from the top of an immense tree and could never walk. But Daynaris was different. It nurtured an atheistic conviction rooted in his long-suffering heart. That fateful event that kept her in a coma for several days, brought her to life with a definitive conviction: "God does not exist, sir, no matter how much you explain it to me, it is not going to work."

It is not easy at all to speak humanly of hope to a suffering heart that has passed through the fire of misfortune. But God can. And he could, in the case of Daynaris.

In a daring and supernatural impulse, I took her hands and said sweetly: -Don't give up on life, daughter; Christ is your hope. And the same impulse led me to open the Bible "as if at random" to see reflected in all its beauty the powerful word of God. The verse entered my eyes like a ray of light and I read it to Daynaris immediately: “But I have put my hope in the Lord; I hope in the God of my salvation. My God will hear me! " (Micah 7.7)

And then it was she who reached out her hands to mine, between sobs, and said words that I will never forget. –Sir, I believe that you have the hands of God-. It was a shock of emotions produced by the Spirit what happened next. I cried too, and I hugged him simply as a father can hug a daughter. Again I remembered Peter: “Rather, honor Christ as Lord in your heart. Always be ready to respond to anyone who asks you to give a reason for the hope that is in you ”. (1 Peter 3.15).

That is the miracle of the gospel of hope. A woman who believed herself to be an atheist, felt for a moment the presence of God in her life with a touch of encouragement and consolation coming from the hand of an ordinary and ordinary person. I proposed to him to pray and give his life to Jesus and the family choir was joined by his little daughter and his mother. And the house was filled with prayer… and hope for Daynaris and her family

"I will never forget it," he told me when I said goodbye.

"Don't forget God," I replied. - Oh, and do not lose hope -.

This story is to glorify the Lord. There are Daynaris out there, paralyzed or not, who are hopeless and in need of God's touch. You can be that channel of blessing and have the power of the Spirit to do it.

God bless your Word!