Redeemed Hearts
We're spending another week looking at the life story of William Duma. The book is called Take Your Glory, Lord, and it's filled with many interesting stories of God working in people's lives.
God's Power to Transform
One Sunday afternoon, Duma was preaching in his church, and a tall young Zulu girl burst through the doors holding a knife. She went straight over to Mrs. Duma, but much to everyone's relief, handed her the weapon and then told her story. A friend of hers had fallen in love with her boyfriend. And in a fit of jealous rage, she had picked up this knife and gone after her to try and kill her. But she hadn't managed to succeed. A few people standing around while she was trying to do it overpowered her.
She came straight to the church because she realized that she needed God and that God had intervened to prevent her from killing this friend of hers. She cried out and said, "I want to give myself to the Lord Jesus," Duma said.
A wave of power swept over the congregation. Heads were bowed as if before a gust of wind and flame. Women wept, men murmured their confessions to God, and Duma said this to the people: "How many of you here are the same kind of sinner as this girl? She's not the only one. Many of you have the same unredeemed hearts." And so many people knelt and prayed and received Jesus.
Forgiveness and Redemption
Amazingly, Elizabeth, the lady who had burst in with the knife, on the next Sunday, took the girl she tried to kill, Lena, to church, and they were both baptized. And the story, for me, was just such an amazing story of God's power. God can take enemies and make them friends. He can take murderous people and make them loving people. He can take angry people and make them peaceful.
As you come to God today, do you have an unredeemed part of yourself that you need to present to Him? Ask Him to forgive and cleanse you of it. He is able. He is willing if you'll come to Him in faith and give yourself to Him entirely to change your life, just like He did in the life of that lady, Elizabeth.
