LIFE CHANGE
“Alexander Solzhenitsyn tells of a time in the Siberian prison when he was weary from hard labor, weak from a starvation diet, and in pain from an untreated illness. He was being forced to shovel sand hour-after-backbreaking- hour. Finally he felt he could not go on. He just stopped, knowing that the guards would beat him severely, perhaps even to death. Just then another prisoner, a fellow Christian, took his shovel handle and, right at Solzhenitsyn’s feet, he drew in the sand the sign of the cross. Then he quickly erased it. But when Solzhenitsyn caught the glimpse of the cross, all hope and courage of the Gospel flooded his soul and enabled him to hold on. He says that he was saved that day by the sign of the cross.” The Pastor Howard Edington continues, “That’s worth remembering. Yes, it’s a tough time in a tough world and it’s tough being a Christian. The only answer is to hang tough…
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