God's Smuggler

by Brother Andrew

My “yes” to God had always been a “yes, but.” Yes, but I’m not educated. Yes, but I’m lame. With the next breath, I did say “Yes.” I said it in a brand-new way, without qualification.

Suppose on the other hand that I were to discover God to be a Person, in the sense that He communicated and cared and loved and led. That was something quite different. That was the kind of King I would follow into any battle.

“That’s the excitement in obedience,” he said. “Finding out later what God had in mind.”

And so, for the first of many times, I said the Prayer of God’s Smuggler: “Lord, in my luggage I have Scripture that I want to take to Your children across this border. When You were on earth, You made blind eyes see. Now, I pray, make seeing eyes blind. Do not let the guards see those things You do not want them to see.”

Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.