I met David a little over a year ago. His friend Jeff is a classmate of mine and introduced us at a club outing. I remember David’s kind personality and his infectious sense of humor but it was the fact that, despite the tragedy of his condition, he still kept a positive attitude. David was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer 3 years ago after he moved here from Orange Co. California, after meeting his girlfriend on World of War craft video game site and decided to come live with her here in Wisconsin. David never knew who his father was and his mother, as he put it, was (and still is) an alcoholic and drug attic. His “rock” was his older brother Steve, who would tell you himself that he was not the best role model for David, having been in and out of prison his entire life.
Needless to say, David hasn’t had the easiest upbringing. The atmosphere that he lived in (if I could apply a single word) was dark and his only experience with having a personal relationship with God was not good. It was by the pure grace of God, and His perfect planning that I and others were convicted to enter his life after hearing that he had anywhere from a week to a month to live. I and others started going over there a couple nights a week, hanging out with him and getting to know him and those around him on a more personal level. When we talked with him a personal relationship with God, he had a lot of questions and was not sure that he even deserved that kind of life. However, he was sure that he was scared and of sure of where he was going and found comfort in the idea of heaven. We started telling this story to people on campus and to churches back home and it was amazing to see how got put it on the hearts of so many people to be praying for David and his family.
It was by all means hard to watch David a, 20 year old boy, suffering through each day with such fear of where he was going when it was all said and done. It was hard to know that the results of what we did was completely out of our control, that there was so little time and the atmosphere around David’s life was screaming all things opposite of a life surrendered to God. However, God was good and completely sovereign and about a month or so after visiting him regularly and being in constant prayer, my friends and I had the incredible opportunity to witness David except Christ into his life, just over a week before David passed away.
Now this story is much larger than I can put in a couple paragraphs, however I hope you get an idea of some of the amazing, and God directed miracles that still happen today. This situation is far greater than we could ever wrap our minds around but God used multiple gifts by multiple people that all came served their purpose in David’s story; (and God is still at work in this).
