God Comforts
April 25, 2024
I love looking back through my old Bibles and reading the notes I’ve scribbled. Isaiah 51: 12–14 was highlighted in Romania as I sat with Lidi and Jeremiah Russu.
Lidi clung to this verse 4 years before Jeremiah was in prison for possessing Bibles. Lidi was quaking at home with their two babies. Nicolae Ceausescu was a violent leader killing at will.
She tossed and turned fearing that she would never see her husband again. She picked up her Bible and read. “I am he who comforts you: why then are you afraid of a mere mortal who must die, a human being who fades like grass? The oppressed shall speedily be released.”
Comfort flooded her. She slept the deep sleep of peace. Jeremiah was released! (Ceausescu was later killed.) I was humbled to sit in the presence of this bold young mother.