A few weeks later, I was at home on Christmas break and I was doing a drug called Ecstasy. Sometime after midnight, I became strangely sober and felt an overwhelming burden to call Dave.
So at 2:00 a.m., Dave came up to my house, carrying his Bible, with tears rolling down his cheek. We sat down and I told him I needed to know more about God. He asked me if I knew what he was doing when I called him.
He went on to tell me that when I called him, he was doing the same thing he’d been doing every night since he left Virginia Tech—he was on his knees praying for me. Over the next few days and weeks, I continued to read the Bible and have conversations with Dave.
He told me that God made me to love and worship Him. He explained that the guilt I was feeling was God showing me that I was in rebellion against Him and was on my way to hell. He explained that Jesus died for sinners like me and then rose from the dead to extend mercy to me if I would turn from my sins and believe in Jesus. He told me that Jesus would forgive all of my sins, change my life and make me His forever.
I’m not sure if it was that night or in the weeks that followed, but Dave’s stand, God saved life, my soul.
I began reading the Bible and it was no longer a book of old stories, but now it was like a spotlight that searched my soul and showed me the depths of my sin and the even greater depths of God’s love for me in Jesus.
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Dave made a stand for Christ that night at Virginia Tech. God used him to get a message to me that eternally altered my life. Now, every Halloween night, I call Dave and thank him for the stand. God used Dave’s stand to save my soul and my life from utter destruction.
I’m a very unlikely person to be a Christian. I loved my sin. I loved my life. I had a very hard heart. Dave was the 17th person to have some sort of Gospel conversation with me. I didn’t want Jesus. But for some reason, He wanted me.
As you read this, I want to encourage you to remember that God’s grace is stronger than the hardest heart.
Romans 1:16-17 says, “The Gospel is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, the righteous shall live by faith.”
You Can Take a Stand, Too
Who is the most unlikely person you know to become a follower of Jesus?
Take a moment to think.
You have a name?
Jesus can save them.
And you just might be the person He uses to get the Gospel to them.
The Gospel is the power of God for salvation, for rebels like me and rebels like you.
Make a stand for Christ and trust Him to use it for His glory. The same stand that saved my life may just save the soul of someone you know.
