When Steve Saint found himself stranded in Timbuktu,(1) a young man named Nouh agreed to take him to a local missionary to help him procure transportation.
Reading Christian biographies had encouraged and strengthened Nouh's faith (Hebrews 11).
He told Steve, "My favorite was about five young men who willingly risked their lives to take God's Good News to Stone Age Indians in the jungles of South America ... these men let themselves be speared to death, even though they had guns!"(3)
Can you imagine Nouh's surprise when Steve explained that one of those men was his father, Nate Saint?
But Nouh was not the only one blessed that day.
Steve had been struggling with the purpose of his father's death, and this meeting gave him confidence that his father's witness was touching lives all the way to Timbuktu (Romans 8:28)!
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(1) Timbuktu, often used to describe the uttermost parts of the earth, is a city in the West African nation of Mali.
(2) Members of Muslim families who convert to Christianity are often tortured and/or killed by Muslim family members. See Should Christians be concerned about the idea of Sharia Law? For more on this important subject, see the Bite Size Bible Study linked to this devotion.
(3) For more details of this story that happened in 1986 and other interesting stories from the lives of Steve and Ginny Saint, check out Walking His Trail. You can also read about Steve's life in his book End of the Spear.
To read a few more Bible Love Notes devotions about the Saint Family, see The Saint Family: Courage and Perseverance.
To read a few more Bible Love Notes devotions about the Saint Family, see The Saint Family: Courage and Perseverance.
To do a short Bible study on the subject of today's devotion, check out today's Bite Size Bible Study.
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