Ett vittnesbörd

Igår fick jag mail från min gode vän Albin som går sitt första år på Bethel School of Supernational Ministry i Redding, CA. Albin ville dela ett fantastiskt vittnesbörd från en av hans klasskamrater. Texten här kommer direkt från klasskamratens facebooksida.

So I was just on my way to work and I had to stop for gas so I allowed myself some extra time to get to work. When I pulled up to the pump I shut my car off and saw this middle aged man crying looking at the gas pump. I began to wonder what happened with this man and as I got out of my car and looked at him my heart felt like it stopped.

In Apple Valley, Minnesota it is 10 degrees (=-10 grader celcius, Albins anmärkning) and freezing cold with the wind. This man was wearing flip flops with socks covered in holes. I look I his car and see his wife in the front seat covering her face in her hands and the 2 teenage girls both of cuddling under a blanket in the back seat.

I didn’t even think and I went up to the man and said sir is something the matter? He looked at me and I could tell he was on the verge of giving up because he didn’t even try to conceal his tears when he said I can’t even provide for my family.

Without even thinking I put my card in his machine and tell him Jesus Christ the Son of God died to provide for you. Fill up. Something, something came alive in him. He was in shock and it was like he forgot how to pump gas.

In that same moment his wife got out of her car, she asked her husband what was going on and he told her I just payed for their gas she started to cry and came around the corner to shake my hand when I saw her pants dirty and torn. I asked her to come to my car.

The airport lost some of my luggage on my way to MInnesota from California and I had to clean out my closet to find stuff to wear and get rid of a lot of stuff all of that stuff that I had yet to give away was siting in the back seat of the car and in the trunk. I opened up my car and told the lady to take what she wanted.

This lady RAN back to her car. I was so afraid I had just embraced her but a moment later her and her two girls were digging through those clothes layering my sweatshirts and shirts and sweat pants over the worn out clothes they had been wearing.

Soon the father had finished pumping the gas and came over. This attracted a little crowd at the gas station. An some older man gave the family a cub gift card and another middle aged man gave away his jacket to the father. Never in my life did I think I would see this kind of thing happen at a gas station with a handful of complete strangers.

But it gives me hope. That the love of God can be so contagious. That we are not alone in being the change we want to see in the world. That God’s love is greater than anything and we get to be a part of that love changing lives. And HE always provides!

Albin berättar vidare:

Hon skrev detta på sin facebook för hon tänkte att hon kunde uppmuntra några vänner med det. Men nån timme efter hade 1000 personer gillat inlägget på facebook, och några timmar senare hade tiotusentals läst inlägget, och det spred sig som en löpeld över facebook. I skrivande stund har miljontals läst det, 446.000 gillat det och 211.000 delat historien på facebook. 

 Vittnesbördet har berört väldigt många, och många icke-troende har hört av sig och undrat om historien är på riktigt och om denna Gud är på riktigt. Bland annat en facebook-vän till henne, som precis höll på att avsluta ett självmordsbrev, men frågade henne om detta och om Gud var på riktigt. Hon skrev tillbaka ”Ja, detta hände på riktigt, Gud finns, och Han älskar dig”. Vännen började skaka av Guds kraft, och kände en kärlek som han aldrig hade känt förut. Hans liv har vänt helt och hållet sen den punkten, och han ska förmodligen gå ”Teen challenge” (slags bibelskola) snart. 

Vittnesbördet har även lett till att en radiokanal ringde henne och undrade om det var sant, och hon fick dela live över radio vad som hade hänt. Detta har sen spelats upp i flera andra radiokanaler (flera kristna radiokanaler, men även 2 sekulära), så att mer än 7 miljoner människor hört vittnesbördet. De fick stänga av telefonlinjen till radiostation, för att så många ringde och ville veta mer om Gud och ville ta emot Jesus i sitt liv… Flera andra grejer hände utifrån detta vittnesbörd, hon hade inte tid att berätta allt i skolan idag.

Allt detta på grund av att en tjej, driven av Guds kärlek delade med sig till sin nästa i Jesu namn. Låt oss gå och göra likadant. Amen.