Don't you hate it when it happens? You pray for opportunities to share the gospel with someone and then one comes along and you miss it. I was having a minor op yesterday and just as I was having the local anaesthetic injected into my head before the biopsy the nurse said "That looks like a heavy book you are reading?"
The book concerned is Jeffery, Ovey and Sachs 'Pierced for our transgressions'. She then went on to ask what it was about and was it blood thirsty? Probably not the question you want as the doctor is poised with the scalpel. I was not alert enough and just said that it was a theology book. What a missed opportunity - the book is all about hoe God in love sent his Son to die in our place for our sin so that we could again be in relationship with God.
What an opportunity and I missed it. It was a bit of a wake up call to:
1. keep reading books like that in public places - you never know when they will present an opportunity,
2. to always be ready - you never know when an opportunity will come, I should have thought more about the questions the book might pose,
3. to ask God's forgiveness (1 John 1:9) and be ready for the next opportunity to tell people the great news about God's grace.
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