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God is after your money, Right?
On June 12, 2013, Ravi Zacharias
was speaking at RZIM's Summer Institute in the US and I was watching his live
stream in Daejeon, Korea. Ravi shared
about how God weaves the threads of our lives to create a grand design for his
glory. From his own life experience, he
gave the following story of how God works in ways that we can hardly understand;
In 1971, while he was a seminary
student, was invited to speak in a conference in Canada. In that conference, he met a missionary lady who
invited him to come to Vietnam and minister for the three months of that summer
there. When Ravi hesitated due to the
lack of finances, the lady said "God will provide". To make things clearer, Ravi said, "I am
not just talking about the travel expenses; I am talking about my school fee
for the next semester because if I join the mission team, I won't be able to
make the money to pay for my next semester school fees". The lady again said, "God will
provide". Lo and behold, a lady that
Ravi never knew from New York sent him 3600$ to cover his travel expenses and
the next semester's school fees. Ravi
sent her the thank you note, went to Vietnam, graduated from school and went on
to become one of the greatest Christian Apologists of our generation, but never
again heard from the lady.
About five or six years ago, a
letter with crooked writings came to the office of the RZIM headquarter in
Atlanta Georgia saying "Is this the same Ravi Zacharias that I sent 3600$
in 1971? I heard him speak in a Radio
and if this is the same man, I am very glad that I had the chance of investing
in his life". Ravi attempted to find
out who this person might be, and found out that this was a person who had suffered
with polio and was bound to a wheelchair.