Given to Matthew Hayes - 05/11/2023

What happens when a man who has devoted his life to actively following and preaching God's Word suddenly at the age of 88 suffers a debilitating stroke? For E. Stanley Jones, missionary to India, it was a great opportunity to demonstrate to the world that even in such a desperate condition, God was still the unshakable Yes. There would be no bitterness or self-pity or questioning of God's ways, but rather a full use of whatever faculties remained to affirm the very substance of what he had spent his life proclaiming. He stated, "I've been saying across the years that in the Cross is Victory, and now I have to pick up that Cross in a new sense and show that it is the Victory!" Through great effort for he had lost most of his sight, speech and mobility, he was able with help to write this his final book to reassure all that the worst that life may bring can not only be endured but be a triumphant testimony to overcoming victory in Christ. ( )