This testimony is from Wycliffe in Nairobi, Kenya who recently had his laptop stolen. His laptop had all of the chronological lessons in Swahili on it:
“I thank God for His grace and love. God really does comfort his children – and most often he chooses to do so through the arms, legs, voices, ears, faces, and tears of men and women who have been to the front lines and returned with battle scars. ‘Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God’ (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).
Someone who has ‘been there’ has the credibility and the understanding to know what it is that the person in pain is going through – the questions, the doubts, the fears. They can speak both compassionately and authoritatively because of their own experience.
God has used a friend to loan me His old laptop to keep using as I wait for God’s provision for my own. The police are still pursuing the robbers, The robbers have not yet switched on the computer, making it hard to trace it. We keep praying and I thank God for His provision of another computer. My email is okay, so I can continue using it now.”
Wycliffe