It is only through hope in Christ that walls of hostility will ever come down.
Hi, I’m Joni Eareckson Tada. And I remember several years ago meeting Dario, a young Bosnian soldier. He shared his experiences as a commander during the Bosnian War. Three years of killing, carnage, rape and plunder. But listen to this note that Dario wrote me in somewhat broken English: “Joni, I asked a German missionary if God can forgive even so big sins like mine. He answered that Jesus pays some 2,000 years ago all the sins from this world. That night I fall upon my knees, begging from God to forgive me and change my life. When I wake up next morning, I felt very strange deep peace and joy inside me.” Wow, Ephesians 1 says, “Christ himself is our peace. He has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility.” Friend today, join me in praying for our missionary brothers and sisters in war-torn parts of the world—for it is only through hope in Christ that walls of hostility will ever come down.
© Joni and Friends