Just another blessed day:

Last Wednesday was a sunny fall day here in Budapest, more and more reddish and brownish leaves are covering the city like a nicely worked out patchwork blanket. I was walking to the subway station on Andrassy Avenue. I had a little smile on my face as I enjoyed the sunbeams on my forehead. A conversation came to my mind that I had in Kölcsey high school with kids in class. Ethnic tolerance and racism was the topic that I was teaching them. This is a very sensitive topic today in Hungary, because of a lot of conflicts between Gypsies and Hungarians. This very tense conversation gave me a good opportunity to share Mt7:12: “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you”. They listened very carefully and I saw on their faces, that they got the point. I’m just praying for those 23 students of the class that they would not just start to apply Christian ethics in their life, but that they would find the real source of this golden rule: Jesus Christ.

        When I arrived to the subway station I still had 30 minutes to get to downtown to meet with Dani to continue our last week talking when I shared my personal testimony and the gospel with him. I knew Dani from another high school, but two years ago when I met him for the first time he was not very open to talk about God. I couldn’t figure out what pulled him closer to God but a week before when I met him after two years he was very different. He declared boldly that he is not a Christian but he would like to know more about it.

         I arrived first to the Burger King next to the Central Market Hall so I bought two hot chocolate and Dani arrived in that moment. We sat down and I asked him about our last week’s conversation. It was obvious that he understood and he was thinking about it during the week. When I asked Dani about the decision part, he interrupted me and he said that he can’t wait to receive Christ! I was little surprised because his words were abrupt and filled with emotions! So, just do it, I encouraged him. After we finished our hot drink we walked down to the Danube riverbank and we prayed together. He just made the most important decision in his life! Immediately he started to ask questions, about what will be happening now? How can he be sure that Jesus is in his life, because he doesn’t feel anything different? He had to leave quickly so, I had just a little time to answer. This week we will meet again and we can continue. Please pray for Dani, that he would keep walking with the Lord for the rest of his life.

       We have to be thankful to God for everything, for good and bad. But days like this are such blessings in my life and I’m very thankful for that! The icing on the cake, when I arrived home and I checked my Facebook, I had a “thank you it was a cool class” with five other “Likes” from the class where I had been teaching on that day. God is good! All the time!

The Burger King in the downtown