Red Dot Reminder

I just talked to a 21 year old, who helped organize Teen Street about an incident that he was challenged in through last year’s event. Though he was part of the leadership team this year, last year he was a coach for a net of teens. All were asked to put a red mark on their id card to remind them that God will and wants to use them. After Teen Street, he was heading out to share the Gospel with an evangelism team. Some Hindu fanatics found out what he was doing and took all his evangelistic literature (book of hope), beat him and then took his i.d. card – the same i.d. card that had the red dot on it, the same dot that Hindu ladies put on their forehead (for marriage or religious identification). The reason they took the id card was so that he couldn’t go to the police and complain. The police would ask for his id card and if he didn’t have it, then they wouldn’t listen. As a result, he went on to do the evangelism that he started out to do with his friends. In the evening they found out that the same fanatics were looking for him with his id card and as he saw them and saw them holding his id card, the red dot stood out on his card and he was reminded of the reason it was there – that God would use him.