I have been quietly reading and listening to these wonderful truths Ray has been pointing us to for a little over a year now. One of Ray's latest emails made me sad. Here it is:
Emailer: "do you have anyone that will speak up on your behalf, that is a known person?"
Ray: "NO, in fact, I don't have too many people willing to speak up for me that are totally unknown persons."
The internet is a wonderful and dreadful tool. Its pretty clear that God intends its use to multiply knowledge in end times as spoken in Daniel. It allows so many of us to read and listen and learn the truth from men like Ray. However, when someone like Paul went into a city and taught he could look out over the crowd and see the faces of those who heard his message. Paul could observe the light in a persons eye and the tears on their face as they were set free by the wonderful truths of God's love. Ray sits at his computer and labors every bit as hard as Paul or Peter. We hear the teaching of a wonderful servant of God and we smile and we cry and our lives are changed forever as God reaches into our hearts through the words of a loyal servant. But Ray doesnt see the millions of smiling faces or hear the voices speaking thanks and praise to God for newfound love and freedom in Christ that has come through his words. It must be very lonely most of the time.
I am an unknown person. I speak up now for Ray Smith because is a wonderful and faithful servant of our Lord and Savior Jesus.
Mike