When God Calls, Don’t Drop It

I was walking in this beautiful desert when my phone rang. This was a miracle since there is no cell reception usually in this sparsely populated section of the desert. It was the second day in a row that my phone had unexpectedly rung while I was in Tucson visiting my parents. In both cases, it was an abortion worker who wanted out of the industry and had been told to call me.

Over the past month, several workers have left the abortion center. All have a similar story. All feel their soul is being destroyed and they cannot take it any more. All expressed a distancing or complete severing of their ability to pray or go to church or feel worthy to approach God. All cried as they told me their stories. All hung on my every word as I shared the hope and truth of God’s redemptive plan through Jesus Christ. All committed their lives to Jesus. All sent me a text or email shortly thereafter telling me they had not felt such joy and hope in a long time.

The two miraculous phone calls I fielded over the past two days followed the same glorious pattern. I stood on a hilltop in the desert as I shared the Gospel. I knew if I kept walking, I would lose the call and this call was too important to lose. Someone’s eternity was hanging on that call.

Before the call did finally drop, the abortion worker told me she would never go back to that shameful job. She has asked Jesus to be Lord, and prayed a beautiful prayer of faith and submission and repentance. She texted me instantly, “Thank you so much. You have no idea how much better I feel.”

Actually, I do. I once was lost and now am found. I know exactly how she feels.

I stood on the mountaintop gazing at the incredible expanse of God’s beautiful creation all around me and praised Him for His mercy and grace.

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Luke 19:10 

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Luke 15:1-32 

Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ...