The Gideons

Today is Gideon's day. I was thinking about this a lot the past few days and wondering when they would be here. I guess I should explain myself a little bit. As I was walking back from a great morning prayer this morning and great time with God, I saw Chancellor Johnson walking toward her office. The whole time I was thinking, "Man, if I run into her on the sidewalk and am forced to be excited to see her, I'm gonna flip a lid." Luckily, she reached her destination before I was close to intersecting with her, but not before a saw an older gentleman show her some green thing he had in his hand. I smiled. This man was one of those cute old men that you could just see being your grandfather. I saw her walk away from him quickly, her own agenda and pressing matters at hand. The man, with the green thing still in his hand, could not have his smile wiped off his face even though she hadn't take whatever he held out to her.
As I approached the man, I realized he was from The Gideon's International. I walked up to him with the biggest smile I could muster at that early hour and took the Bible from him. I smiled into the face of a man who had the joy of the Lord. "I was wondering when you guys were going to be here. I've been thinking of you a lot lately," I stated in all honesty.
"Yeah, we waited for the rain to pass."
We said a few more words which I don't even remember, and I walked back to my room to crack open this Bible. Hopefully I won't have it for very long, hopefully a day coming up soon I will need to give it away. But the first chapter I opened it to was Acts 4. This chapter is about how the "teachers of the law," the Saducees and Pharisees, see God's work being done in healing and even though they're upset that the apostles and disciples (and more specifically, Peter) are preaching in the name of Jesus and preaching about the resurrection of the dead (and thousands are hearing the Word and believing it). Even though these teachers threaten the apostles in order that they may hinder them from preaching something contrary to what they are teaching, the Word of God cannot be stopped and even they began to see that it was undeniably the truth that the apostles were preaching.
Reflecting on the Gideon's, I think this has everything to do with them and every other Christian on earth. Acts 4:20: "For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."
I pray that today God would give us the boldness and the Holy Spirit like he did with Peter and the other believers gathered in Acts 4 (check out verse 31) so that we may proclaim those things that we have seen and heard.