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| The sun beat down on the open plains, air shimmering with heat as the young Maasai boy tended his cattle as usual. The cattle started heading toward a field where they normally would rest… but that day, they didn’t. They kept going. Field after field… they walked without stopping. He began to wonder, “What is going on here? Where are my cattle going?” Earlier this week, I shared how a young Maasai boy I met in Nairobi, Kenya, told me, “My cattle led me to Jesus…” And today, I want to tell you the rest of that story. It was an ordinary day… until it wasn’t. The cattle had walked field after field, confusing the Maasai boy, until finally, they stopped at the edge of a village where there was a small field. For the first time, they all laid down, so he sat with them under the sun. As he sat there that day, he looked up. In the distance, a man stood with a Bible in his hands, speaking to the villagers. “I had never heard anything like it,” he said. “The man was speaking about Jesus, His love, His grace… and my cattle were quiet, listening attentively.” “I could not believe it,” he said. The next day, the cattle led him back. And the next. Each time, he heard truth from Scripture, the cross, the Sabbath, the great controversy, the battle between good and evil, and the second coming. And slowly… quietly… conviction grew in his heart. “This man is speaking truth… I have to find a Seventh-day Adventist church,” he said to himself. He began searching, and he found one. Then he told me, “I am a Seventh-day Adventist today… because my cattle led me to know Jesus. God was guiding me.” He paused… and smiled. “Today, I am a pastor and an evangelist, just like you… and I am studying the Bible with other Maasai, because I want to lead them to Jesus too.” Only God can do that. Friend… sometimes we are called to do exactly what that young boy did. Follow the leading of God… even when we do not understand the path. Because even when it doesn’t make sense… God is still leading. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart… and He shall direct your paths.” — Proverbs 3:5–6 Lord, teach us to trust You, even when we cannot understand where You are leading. Yours In Christ, Mark Finley |
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