Battlefield miracle brings a soldier to faith

You wrote to me about the wonderful thing that happened to you during the war. Someone was handing out the New Testament to the soldiers on the battlefield. Small, tightly bound books. You took one too. And you remarked ironically: “Here steel and lead are needed, not books; and if steel does not save us, books certainly will not save us!” You made such a remark because until that day, you had not laid any foundation for your faith in God. You looked at it as an old cloak, which the human caravan has been dragging behind it since the beginning of time without any benefit.

You nevertheless received the little book and put it in your pocket, on your left. What happened? You say: “A miracle of God”, and I agree. That very day, a fierce battle broke out, and the wounded were falling around you. Suddenly, you too fell. A bullet hit you. You grabbed your left side with your hand. You expected blood to flow. When you undressed, you found the bullets in that little book, right in front of your heart. You trembled all over, as if from a fever. The finger of God! The holy book saved your life from steel and lead. You consider that day as your spiritual birth. From that day on, you began to fear God and to learn the faith carefully. And yet, it is not an old cloak! And the human caravan does not wear it in vain. God opened your eyes with His mercy. It is written: “God loves the righteous and has mercy on sinners.”

Some people lost their bodies in war, and others their souls. The former lost less. And some gained their souls. These are the true victors. Some went to war like wolves and returned from war like lambs. I know many of them. There are those who, like you, have felt, through a wonderful event, that the Invisible God walks beside them. As the psalmist said: “I foresaw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand, that I should not be moved.” Do you read the Psalter?

And if you, being then an unbeliever, felt how the Most High penetrates human life, how much more now, when you are a believer and a devout person?

Peace to you and joy from the Lord!

Saint Nicholas Velimirovich

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