More Precious than Gold
A man in Pakistan has lost his home, his health, and his only daughter due to a tragic plot. He says, “All the Muslims were working hand-in-glove to deprive me of my daughter and my property.”
Muslim friends often asked him to abandon his faith, but he refused. Later these friends convinced him to buy a house in a better neighborhood. Then others “gave” him some plastic sheeting, which they placed on his floor. Later other Muslims who came to his house lifted the sheet to reveal Koranic verses and other Islamic writing on the underside of the plastic. Over a public address system at a local mosque, a Muslim cleric announced that this Christian had desecrated the Koranic verses. He was told to convert or die. The Christian stalled for time, but the Muslims did not forget about him. He was attacked and taken to a mosque where he was beaten mercilessly with clubs and wooden benches. When he was nearly unconscious, they took his thumbprint and wrote that he had converted to Islam. Despite their lies, he never gave in—and he refused to pray to anyone but Jesus.
Meanwhile, his daughter was abducted. When he finally discovered where she was, he was told that she had “recanted Christianity and embraced Islam and married.” Several days later they showed her father a fraudulent marriage certificate. Another Muslim offered to help recover the daughter, but said that if she returned to her kidnapper “by any means” the father would have to pay approximately $5,800.
The daughter was restored to her family, but soon someone from the kidnapper’s village demanded that the father and daughter come to collect her belongings. When they arrived, she was abducted again and her father was dumped in a jungle without his cell phone. As soon as he returned to his home, the Muslim who helped “rescue” his daughter demanded the $5,800 payment. Because the father did not have this money on hand, he had to sell his home below market value in order to pay the debt.
This believer’s world has been turned upside down. He says, “At present I . . . have neither my daughter, which they deceitfully kidnapped, nor my house, but I have protected the most precious thing in my life; my faith in Jesus.”
What is the most precious thing in our lives?
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. – 1 Peter 1:6-7
News Source: Assist News
