Forgiveness

One of my heroes of the faith is the late Richard Wurmbrand who died in February 2001. Wurmbrand was born in Rumania in 1920 as a Jew and became a Christian when he encountered Christ at an early age.

He shared his faith with the occupying troops in the 1940’s and the Germans threw him in prison for it. When the Russians threw the Germans out at the end of the war, he shared his faith with the Russians. Eventually the Communists threw him in prison for his faith too and he served 14 years in prison, 21/2 of which were in solitary confinement for being a Christian.

I recall one incident that he wrote about in his book “In God’s Underground” . His wife, Sabrina’s family were killed by a man called Borila at a place called Golta in Rumania. Wurmbrand met Borila one day and brought him to faith in Christ.

Wurmbrand went into his wife’s bedroom and woke her up. He said “There is a man here who you must meet. We believe he murdered your family, but he has repented and now he is our brother.”

She came out in her dressing gown and put her arms around him and embraced him. The both began to weep and kiss reach other again.

And then Sabrina went into the kitchen and made him something to eat.