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Themes: Grace D.V. The Battle of the Bulge during World War 2 left many soldiers with dreadful memories. The soldier who told me this story had a special memory that he would never forget.
He was just a young man, but when World War 2 erupted, Bob soon found himself a soldier in the United States Army. Now it was Dec 1944. The German Army had overtaken much of Europe, but the Allied forces had laid plans to drive them back. Preparations were made, but the struggle was to be long and hard.
US troops were deployed along the border of France and Germany; thousands of soldiers took their positions to resist the advancing German army. Now the attack had come. Among those brave US soldiers was a young man who was now thinking most seriously about the salvation his mother taught him as a boy. But since then many years had passed.
Bob scrambled for cover as the enemy artillery pounded the battlefield around him. Incoming shells screamed overhead, followed by the flash and explosions. The battle was raging, when suddenly a bomb burst a short distance from Bob. A blow struck him on the chest and he was knocked to the ground. he'd been hit!
An ache in his side left him breathless and he lay there not knowing what to expect next. Looking at his combat jacket he saw a slice where the shrapnel had torn through. There was a burn on the cloth from the hot metal, but he saw no blood. He felt around for the wound. Tearing open his jacket, he stared with great amazement. There was the old army Bible he had packed in his pocket; a long gash torn through the hard cover and deep into its pages. Imbedded in that Bible was a razor sharp chunk of steel the size of a large marble. Bob's life had been saved by God's kindness, and God's book.
God sometimes uses the unexpected to do the impossible. It might be a boy's lunch used to feed 5000 hungry men, or a forgotten Bible in just the right place to speak to someone like Bob.
But how about you and me? God did for us the unexpected, by allowing his Son to die in our place, so that sinners might have the otherwise impossible-a home in heaven. Romans 5:8 says "But God demonstrates His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Have you accepted for yourself what the Lord Jesus did for you? I'm happy to tell you that Bob did.
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Peter Orasuk
