Some time ago, I read the testimony of a chap called Roger Simms, a Christian, who was hitchhiking home, and a Mr Hanover stopped and picked him up. As they drove towards Chicago, Roger felt God urging him to share his faith. He did… and then he asked the man driving if he would like to receive Christ. The long and short of the story is Mr Hanover stopped, bowed his head on the steering wheel and accepted Jesus. Shortly afterwards he dropped Roger at his house and went on to Chicago, which was about an hour down the road.

Years later, while preparing for a business trip to Chicago, Roger came across the business card that Mr Hanover (of Hanover Enterprises) had given him years earlier and he decided to look him up. When he asked the receptionist if he could see Mr Hanover, she said, ‘No, but his wife is here.’

‘You knew my husband?’ the woman asked. Roger explained that her husband had given him a ride and how he’d led him to Christ. ‘When was that?’ she asked. ‘May 7th, five years ago, the day I was discharged from the army.’ She began to sob. After several minutes she regained control and said, ‘I prayed for my husband for years believing that God would save him. But right after he let you out of his car, on May 7th, he was killed in a head-on collision. I thought God had not answered my prayers.

Church, share your faith: Tell others your story, your testimony, the story that God tells about you in heaven. Somebody may really need to hear it! Again, I have never met an atheist (or an agnostic) who can say: ‘Do you know what, atheism has really changed my life… you should have seen my life before I became an atheist!’ But every Christian can say that! Share your story!

Source: quoted in The UCB Word For Today, 5/9/2007