Turning evil to good.

Turning evil to good Don’t be intimidated by you enemies.…
you have been given not only the
privilege of trusting in Christ but also
the privilege of suffering for him. Philippians 1:28-29 NLT Finding God in Russia In the 1930s Stalin ordered a purge of
all Bibles and all believers. In
Stravropol, Russia, this order was
carried out with a vengeance.
Thousands of Bibles were confiscated,
and multitudes of believers were sent to the gulags where most died for
being “enemies of the state.” Years later, CoMission sent a team to
Stavropol. When the team was having
difficulty getting Bibles shipped from
Moscow, someone mentioned the
existence of a warehouse outside of
town where these confiscated Bibles had been stored since Stalin’s day. After much prayer by the team, one
member finally got up the courage to
go to the warehouse and ask the
officials if the Bibles were still there.…
The answer was, “Yes!” The next day The CoMission team
returned with a truck and several
Russian people to help load the Bibles.
One helper was a young man—a
skeptical, hostile, agnostic collegian
who had come only for the day’s wages. As they were loading Bibles,
one team member noticed that the
young man had disappeared. He had
slipped away, hoping to quietly take a
Bible for himself. What he found shook
him to the core. The inside page of the Bible he picked
up had the handwritten signature of
his own grandmother. It had been her
personal Bible. Out of the thousands of
Bibles still left in the warehouse, he
stole the one belonging to this grandmother—a woman persecuted
for her faith all her life. He was found weeping—God was
real. R. Kent Hughes in 1001 Great Stories and Quotes.