Weekend Devotional: A Child of God in a House of Communism

A Teenager’s Manifesto

Rose would have been destined for Communist indoctrination and atheism had it not been for her grandmother’s influence. She followed in the footsteps of her grandmother, who took a risk to share Christ with her. Rose decided to take the same risk with those at her boarding school, sharing and sowing the Word of God: I was born in a Communist home where no one could even mention the word “God.” My parents are atheists. My father is in the Cuban Communist Party leadership. My mother is secretary of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution. You might say my home is a nest for communism. However, my grandmother loves God and taught me about the Lord. She sowed the seeds of God’s Word into me. On several occasions I tried to go to church with her, but my parents did not allow it. One day, I received the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior. My life started to change. Even the way I dressed changed. My mother did not accept it. She never beat me before, but now she often does. When my father learned that I was a Christian, he told me to choose God or him. I chose God because I have understood that he is the only one worth living for. Now, even though I am only 14, I have to study far away from my home. When I first came to this place, I was the only Christian, but I have sown God’s Word and now there are four of us. We meet under a tree — hidden — to share God’s Word. We keep sowing and waiting, believing that soon we will be many. Rose discovered, like many Cuban teenagers living under communism, that faith in Christ comes with consequences. But she believes, despite the odds, that some of the seeds she is sowing will fall on responsive soil. In whose life will you sow the seeds of God’s Word and wait for a harvest? “As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.” —Matthew 13:23 Learn more about communism in this month’s featured resource, Karl Marx and the Satanic Roots of Communism, written by VOM founder Richard Wurmbrand, free with a gift. Read More