Pastor Florescu couldn\u2019t bear to watch his son being beaten by the Communist officers. He had already been beaten himself, and he had not slept for two weeks for fear of being attacked by the starving rats the Communists had forced into his prison cell. The Romanian police wanted Florescu to give up other members of his underground church so that they, too, could be captured.
Seeing that the beatings and torture weren\u2019t working, the Communists brought in Florescu\u2019s son Alexander, only fourteen years old, and began to beat the boy. While Florescu watched, they hammered his son\u2019s body unmercifully, telling the pastor that they would beat his son to death unless he told them the locations of other believers.\u00a0
Finally, half mad, Florescu screamed for them to stop.\u00a0
\u201cAlexander, I must say what they want!\u201d he called out to his son. \u201cI can\u2019t bear your beatings anymore.\u201d\u00a0
His body bruised, blood running from his nose and mouth, Alexander looked his father in the eye. \u201cFather, don\u2019t do me the injustice of having a traitor as a parent. Stand strong! If they kill me, I will die with the word \u2018Jesus\u2019 on my lips.\u201d\u00a0
The boy\u2019s courage enraged the Communist guards, and they beat him to death as his father watched. Not only did he hold on to his faith, he helped his father do the same.
Is there no justice in this world? When we read of the horrible atrocities committed against the innocent, we can\u2019t help but wonder. We may falter in our faith when we hear about cruel suffering at the hands of evildoers. We may become discouraged when we long for the salve of mercy that seems to tarry. Is there no justice in this world? In answer to our cry, the Bible teaches the principle of \u201cyes and not yet.\u201d Yes, some evildoers meet with swift justice here and now. However, God\u2019s mighty hand of infinite justice has yet to fall on this earth. That is saved for the end of time. We grow weary waiting, but he is undeterred.<\/p>\n\n\n
He will not falter or be discouraged till he establishes justice on earth. Isaiah 42:4<\/strong> Pastor Florescu couldn\u2019t bear to watch his son being beaten by the Communist officers. He had already been beaten himself, and he had not slept for two weeks for fear of being attacked by the starving rats the Communists had forced into his prison cell. The Romanian police wanted Florescu to give up other members […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
By Voice of the Matyrs (www.vom.au)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"