I watched a video of a political prisoner in Romania during the communist era, arrested because he had faith and refused to give it up. The prisoner describes his inhumane treatment, and then says he always remembered the line he had heard in a sermon: When you approach God, you have a shadow on your back. When you walk away from God, the shadow is on your face.
Listening to his story, I am reminded of the power of faith. Here was a man tortured in ways unimaginable, and yet through it all, he discovered and developed a deeper faith in God. The story is moving and inspiring, making the words powerful.
Let us face God, so that the shadows we have will always be on our back. For pain does not have the power to break us. You and I with God have the power to discover a deeper faith despite the pain.
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