Recently I watched on the telly a very touching interview about a family. This time I did not shed any tears because this story had a beautiful ending.
The interview began with the young man sharing how, as a child, he stumbled upon pornography in his friend’s house. His curiosity led him to dwell into more of such material.
At that time, his parents were having marital problems and were always quarreling. Then his mum shared how she contemplated suicide because she was fed up with her broken marriage. On her way to carry out her suicide bid she stumbled upon a piece of Christian tract and in the train she took a few minutes to read it.
What was written on the tract was how God never gave up and that there was always a way out. Then as she turned the tract over, she saw a phone number that one could call to talk to someone on the line. After reading it, the flashes of her sons’ faces prompted her to give herself a second chance. After she got out of the train she called the number and was directed to a place where a pastor’s wife ministered to her.
After many weeks of being ministered to, the woman accepted Christ. That was the turning point in her life and she started to change. Her submissiveness and much prayers healed her marriage slowly and not too long after her husband too came to know Christ.
Coming back to the young man, he got into a homosexual relationship with an older man. After the breakup sometime later he took to drugs and became a drug dealer to support his habit. He never graduated from university and later moved further away from home. For a few years, his parents who were Christians then did not know of his whereabouts or if he was dead or alive. All they did was to pray for him daily.
One day this man had a knock on the door. Standing outside his door were a few police officers and two police dogs. He was busted for a few million dollars of drugs and thrown into jail. There in jail he contacted his so-called friends but none of them came to his aid. He knew that the only person who would help him was his mum. He called her and the moment she heard her voice she asked if he was alright. He could feel his mum’s love and concern for him throughout the call.
He told his mum what happened. His parents came to prison to visit and to pray with him. He was very touched that they did not condemn him and were concerned for his well-being. Through this love, the young man accepted Christ. However not too long after, a blood test in prison showed that he was HIV positive, in fact he had AIDS. His world collapsed around him and he had yet to receive his prison sentence for drug trafficking. He shared that it was indeed a miracle that his sentence was finally shortened from six to three years and when in fact from the amount of drugs he had he could have been sentenced from 10 years to life.
The young man used all the time he had in jail to read his Bible and pray. In jail he felt God’s calling to full-time ministry and that he knew that his life is in God’s hands. He phoned his parents to get him an application to a Bible College. He had since graduated and now was working towards his doctorate degree focused on helping people with homosexual problems.
The final advice the young man gave was to never argue, judge or reason with homosexuals but to share God’s love with them. The parents’ final words were that parents should never give up on their children and always lift them up to God in prayer.
Tags: Christ, drugs, God, healing, marriage, pornography
I grew up in the 1960′s when we didn’t have TV in our home. I would spend hours looking at the little cacti that my mother planted grow in size, length and height or just multiplied in numbers. I would mentally take note of the mother cactus, father cactus and the baby cacti. Often these plants reminded me of married couples starting their families.
