There was a knock on my front door. I answered to find a very classy woman 15 years my senior. She was beautiful, very well dressed, awkward and obviously flustered. She was struggling with her words, unsure how to say what she needed to say. She looked at me then glanced at my two children standing beside me and I quickly realized what would follow would not be pleasant. I directed the children off to a task and invited her to sit on my porch. I closed the front door behind me to allow privacy as she asked me if I were having an affair with her husband!
She had found my business card in his wallet and tracked me down suspecting me as the adulterous woman. I didn’t know how he possessed my card and I didn’t recognize him by name but since we were in the process of filling a rental property I suspected he had come to our open house.
She explained how a community leader – someone close to her family – had an affair with a mutual friend and their sin had not only destroyed two families but rocked the entire community. She now questioned her own husband.
I had not even dressed for the day, combed my hair or put on makeup and here she was intimidating me with her beauty and class. I quickly assured her how blessed I was in my own marriage and had no need or desire for another. I explained how mine and my husband’s commitments went deeper than our own relationship because we were committed to the Lord.
As we continued to sit on the porch, I comforted her with scripture, we prayed together and I became thankful that she had come. Had she gone elsewhere they may not have pointed her to Christ, the great comforter. We embraced and said our goodbyes and I continued to pray for her throughout the week – grieved over the consequences of sin of those I had never even met.
We may think our sin is private and no one will know or be affected but the Bible says “you may be sure your sin will find you out.” Numbers 32:23
” For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.” Luke 8:17 (NIV)
We never know when an opportunity will knock to share our faith and comfort someone, even if that person may feel hostile towards us at first. So we need to have our eyes open to opportunities, even when we aren’t seeking them out. You never know who will knock on your door!
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