Imitate Jehovah's Compassion - Continue with JEHOVAH-A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF COMPASSION

Today, many of Jehovah's servants have experienced his compassion.  For example, during the 1990's  in Bosnia, various ethnic groups were fighting and killing one another.  One family living there included a 12-year-old boy we will call Milan.  Milan, his brother, his parents, and other Witnesses were traveling on a bus from Bosnia to Serbia.  They were going  to a convention, where Milan's parents were planning to get baptized.  At the border, some soldiers noticed that the family was from a different ethnic group and made them get off the buss.  Then they let the rest of the brothers on the bus to continue their trip.  For two days,, the soldiers would not let the family go.   Finally, the officer in charge called his superior officer and asked what he should do with them.  The family was standing right there and could hear the officer reply, "just take them out and shoot them!"

As the soldiers were talking, two strangers approached the family.  They whispered that they were Jehovah's Witnesses too and that the brothers on the bus had told them what happened.  The two witnesses told Milan and his brother to get into their car to cross the border because the soldiers were not checking children's papers.  Then the brothers told the parents to walk around the back of the border post and meet them on the other side.  Milan was so scared that he did not know whether to laugh or to cry.  His parents asked, "Do you think they are just going let us walk off?" But as they walked away, it seem as if they soldiers did not even see them.  Milan and his brother met his parents on the other side of the border, and they went on to the convention.  They were convinced that Jehovah had answered their prayers!  We  know from the Bible that Jehovah does not always directly protect his servants in such a way.  (Acts 7:58-60)  But in this case, Milan said:  "It seemed to me that the angels blinded the soldiers and that Jehovah rescued us." -Psalm 97:10.

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