THERE IS HOPE

It was 2.30am and there was a very agonizing cry from the room of Donstead, the first son of the Kweks. The mother and father suddenly jolted from their sleep and ran to their son’s room. There was Donstead, sitting up and perspiring, shaking from limb to limb. “What has happened?” Dr. Kwek, a lecturer in one of the state’s colleges, asked his son. Donstead still clinging to his bed rails, shivering uncontrollably, muttered, “Daddy are you…still here?...Am I…still alive? Is it true that…I am deceived?” he asked in quick session.

The mother, Mrs. Kwek, a businesswoman, went to the son’s side and put her hands around him. The father repeated his question, “Donstead, calm down and tell us what happened. We are still alive. Did you have a nightmare?” “Yes Daddy, more than a nightmare.”

Donstead managed to reply, “I dreamt that I was thrown into a lake burning with fire. The torment was just too real. I cried out just as a ferocious being lifted up a hammer with the intention to break my head. Oh, thank God that I woke up at the time I did. But…hell is such a terrible place. I don’t want to go to hell. Oh, I don’t want to go there!” he concluded, still shaking.

The father drew near and sat at the other end of the bed. He patted his son on the back and said, “Donstead, thank God it is not too late yet. There is still hope. God gave you this revelation so that you’ll be saved. He does not want you to perish. He loves you and wants to set you free. This scary experience is to make you know that hell is a place of eternal torment. My son what will you do with Jesus now? Scared but resolved, Donstead went on his knees: “I will give my life to Christ Jesus right away. I want to be born again – or is it too late already?” Dr. and Mrs. Kwek moved swiftly and knelt beside their prodigal son and he gave his life to Jesus. It was indeed a joyous moment.

Donstead, the first son of Dr. and Mrs. Kwek was the only unconverted child in this family of three children. His younger siblings gave their lives to Jesus Christ at a youth Christian rally held in their church three years back. Now 22 years old and an undergraduate in the university where his father teaches Atomic Physics, Donstead had been a constant source of pain and grief to his family. Their only resort was to pray without ceasing for the conversion of Donstead. Today, those prayers have paid good dividends.

Conversely, there is nobody too hard for God to transform.

• There is none too neck-deep in sin for God to redeem and transform.
• There is no situation too difficult for God’s intervention.
• For those who have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, there is no mountain too high to climb. We have every reason then to believe and receive.

To be continued.