Richard Wurmbrand quote

"Forgetting that pastors are also men, people require them to be models of wisdom, purity, love and truthfulness. So, in smaller or greater measure, they begin to act the part. As time passes, they can hardly tell how much of their behavior is playacting.
I remembered the perceptive commentary that Savonarola had written on the fifty-first Psalm, in prison, with his bones so badly broken that he could sign the self-accusatory document only with his left hand. He said there were two kinds of Christians: those who sincerely believe in God and those who, just as sincerely, believe that they believe. You can tell them apart only in moments of crisis, and then by their actions.
Did I believe in God? Now the test had come. I was alone. There was no salary to earn, no opinions to consider. God offered me only suffering- would I continue to love Him?"

Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand were not saved when they get married. He often cheated on her with other women, and they were also known as party animals living the night life drinking and smoking till the late mornings. Then God opened his eyes, changed his life, and transformed him into a pastor. Sabina, disgusted by her husband's new hobby, refused to get sucked into his new Christian lifestyle. Yet God's sovereignty, changed her life too. T

hey then began to pray together each night that God would let them bear the cross.
He became a pastor and prayed that God would take them to Russia to witness to the communist. But God brought communism to them.
Romania then was taken over by Russia and communism.
At a pastor's conference, Sabina could not believe the words that were being spoken about Jesus Christ so she told her husband
"Go and wash this shame from the face of Christ!"
He replied "If I do, you'll lose your husband"
"I don't need a coward" Sabina replied.

He spoke up. And because of that, he spent 14 years in a communist prison, given a chance to love his enemies, those who beat him, urinated on his face and tortured Him. God was glorified through Richard and Sabina bearing the cross.

My prayer is to bear the cross.