HAVE YOU TOLD ANYONE YET?

       The year was 1953; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn lay in a surgical ward in a Russian camp hospital hoping to survive cancer surgery.  Solzhenitsyn would later write this story and about his eight years in the “Gulag” (forced labor prison camps) for his critical remarks of the infamous Communist leader, Joseph Stalin.  A doctor acquaintance came into his deserted, dark hospital ward and sat beside his cot.  That dark, lonely night fighting off delirium, Solzhenitsyn listened to Dr. Boris Kornfeld solemnly and passionately tell of conversion to Christ.  This well educated, Jewish camp Doctor who was unjustly incarcerated in the Gulag told of how his cell mate had shared with him the truths of Christianity and how he himself had come to place his trust in Christ as his Savior.  He had confined himself to the camp hospital for two months knowing there were some who wanted to end his life.  In the wee hours of the morning Dr. Kornfeld left Dr. Solzhenitsyn to his thoughts and went to a ward to sleep.  In a few hours Solzhenitsyn was awakened by the noise of hurried orderlies carrying the mutilated body of Boris Kornfeld to an operating table.  He had been repeatedly bashed in the head with a mallet during the early morning hours.  The words he had shared that night before concerning his new found faith were his last.  However, it was those words that caused Solzhenitsyn to turn from Marxist atheism to Jesus Christ.

       Have you ever realized that you are a sinner in the eyes of the all knowing, holy Creator, God of heaven?  Have you yet turned from your sin to trust His provision for your forgiveness and righteousness- Jesus Christ? Jesus said of Himself: “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man can come to Father but by me.”  The Bible goes on to tell, “He that believes on the Son has everlasting life and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.”