Our theme the past few days has been the “remnant”—that group of individuals that the Lord has reserved for Himself even in the midst of a huge throng of people that are far away from Him (or at least appear to be).
I recently had another such encounter as I was standing at a bus stop in Karlsruhe, studying the bus schedule. A little old lady—literally—pushed her walker up to me and asked whether she could give me something to read. I replied, “Yes” and she handed me a green booklet entitled “Warum Jesus?” (“Why Jesus?”). At first, I thought she might be a Jehovah’s Witness, but when she started talking and I looked at the booklet, I could tell that she was a bona fide Christian. She told me that Jesus is the Savior of the world, that I needed Him, and that her green booklet would tell me more. She asked me whether I worked for public transportation and I replied that I was a pastor. After a small pause she gave me a “Why-didn’t- you-say-so-in-the-first-place?” look and smiled. She then opened up and told me that she hadn’t always looked the way she does now and that she hadn’t always needed a walker. In fact, she explained that she holds a PhD in minerology and lectured on lunar dust at Penn State for four years in the 1970s! But now she spends her days telling everyone not about lunar dust but about Jesus—a much more important and also eternal topic!
God has His remnant everywhere—you just have to keep your eyes open for them.
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