Freed from Fear

This is the testimony of a woman named Geeta who lives in Southeast Asia. This story is a glimpse of the hopeless and utter despair of these people throughout Asia. They have nothing to look forward to in this life, nor the next. Their future is bleak.
"‘I got married in 1999. My husband was a drunkard. In the evenings he would come home and beat me with a cricket bat. It was a very difficult time in my life. The last time I saw my husband, he beat me very badly. Why did I have to marry this man? Then he disappeared. Having two young children, I didn’t know what to do, where to go or who to stay with. I was all alone.’"

Geeta lived with her children in a hut made of sticks in a crowded slum that backed up to the forest. She was afraid because tigers came out of the jungle at night, and there was nothing to keep them from getting into her hut and killing her family.
"Then one day Geeta’s friend gave her a Gospel tract.
"‘It said that Jesus is our Savior and can protect us from danger. So I prayed that Jesus would protect us from the roaming tigers—and He did! The words were a great comfort to me. My friend also told me about her church and invited me to come.’"
Today Geeta is a believer in Christ. Her future is no long dark but rather full of hope. It is such a blessing to hear how God is working through missionaries and churches across Asia. Yet there are still millions of men, women, and children waiting to hear the Gospel, to have their souls rescued. Working together, we can give them hope and bring them to the knowledge of Christ.

The Gospel is only good news if it gets there on time. –Carl F. H. Henry

　
　
Reagan Schrock, GOA blog manager

Quotation taken from Safe from Tigers, Freed from Fear: Geeta’s Story by Sarah Peterson, published in Gospel for Asia’s volunteer newsletter (June 2011).