阿米娜在一個基督教被禁止的國家歸信了基督。她開始向哥哥分享自己的信仰，卻遭到哥哥斷然拒絕。後來，哥哥罹患了嚴重的肺病。一天他獨自躺在黑暗的病房裡，艱難地喘著氣。他還沒有準備好承認耶穌是上帝的兒子，也不敢開聲呼求基督的名，因害怕被別人聽見！於是他呼求：「阿米娜的上帝啊，求祢現在就幫助我！」霎那間，他的呼吸變得順暢，病房也奇妙地亮了起來。就在那天，他踏上了信主的旅程。

在創世記中，亞伯拉罕的僕人奉命為主人的兒子尋找妻子。首先，他向「主人亞伯拉罕的上帝」禱告（24章12節）。為什麼呢？因為僕人知道上帝曾對亞伯拉罕說：「我必叫你成為大國」（12章2節），上帝後來也重申這一應許（15章2-5節），而且「亞伯蘭信耶和華，耶和華就以此為他的義」（6節）。這僕人可以信靠「主人亞伯拉罕的上帝」（24章27、42、48節），因為他親眼見證了亞伯拉罕的信心是真實的。

我們可以用言語邀請他人來信靠耶穌，但更重要的是，我們如何在他人面前活出真實的信心。對獨一真神的真誠信靠，比千言萬語更有說服力。

願亞伯拉罕和阿米娜的上帝，使用我們的生命吸引人來歸向祂。

Amina had come to Christ in a country where Christianity was illegal. She began to share her new faith with her brother, who rejected her appeals. Then he contracted a dangerous lung condition. Alone in a dark hospital room, he gasped for breath. He wasn’t ready to acknowledge Jesus as God’s Son, and he feared speaking the name of Christ aloud. (Someone might hear him!) So he called out, “God of my sister, please help me now!” Suddenly, he could breathe easily, and the room brightened inexplicably. His journey to belief in Jesus began that day.

In Genesis, Abraham’s servant went on a quest to find a wife for his master’s son. First, he prayed to the “God of my master Abraham” (24:12). Why? The servant knew God had told Abraham, “I will make you into a great nation” (12:2). God repeated that promise (15:2-5), and “Abram believed the Lord, and [God] credited it to him as righteousness” (v. 6). The servant could trust “the God of my master Abraham” (24:27, 42, 48) because he’d witnessed the reality of Abraham’s faith.

With our words, we invite others to follow Jesus. More important, however, is the way we live before them. The reality of genuine faith in the one true God speaks volumes.

May the God of Abraham and of Amina use our lives to draw others to Him.