Would you as a Christian be willing to serve God & preach the gospel if it meant being sent into a prison (dungeon of death)?
Imagine the small room filled with 25-30 people & no ventilation or sanitation? The smell is so bad new comers often pass out within 30 min.. It is crawling with lice and cockroaches, rats and mice that gnaw on your fingers and toes in the night. No heat in winter or a/c in the summer. You would be allowed 1 cup of rice a day that you would have to cook yourself, over a fire in the middle of the room that was constantly filled with smoke. The inadequate diet cause many to be seriously ill, so vomit would be added to the smell.
This is what many Christian do suffer in the other 2/3's of the world to proclaim God to those who don't know Him. There are 40,000 people dieing a day in India without hearing the gospel even once. Would you be willing to suffer this for those whom Christ wept & died?
One such man was willing and after a year of suffering this he was put in a small room that had been used to store the dead until their families came to get them. The jailer thought he would die within days in the damp darkness. He was chained on his hands and feet that cut into him down to the bone. He could not stretch out or cook his own food, so other prisoners sent him food under the door. He stayed here for 3 months without another soul with whom to talk. But God in His mercy allowed him to see the New Testament when he closed his eyes. It sustained him and allowed him to endure this terrible torment.
Would you be willing to suffer this for those whom Christ died?...
This is a paraphrase out of the book REVOLUTION in World Missions by K.P. Yohannan
