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Will Your God Feed You?

© By Mark Finley

The year was 1949. Sergio, an aging Romanian pastor, was arrested - placed in prison for counter-espionage activities. His crime? Ownership of a typewriter!

After placing Sergio behind bars and locking the door, the jailer said to Sergio: "There is no real God. The government gives me my food. Let's see who does a better job - God or the government. I'll go home and eat huge meals. I'll order the guards to give you nothing. I'll be back in four days. We will see who is the best fed."

Sergio, with a heart faithful to God, prayed for God to reveal to this unbelieving jailer that God cares and provides for His children - that nothing is impossible for God.

He heard a cat crying, "Meow, meow." The cat was carrying a slice of bread in his mouth. He brought the bread up to the jail cell bars. Sergio pulled the bread through the bars and thankfully ate the bread.

This drama was repeated every day. Finally after four days the jailer came back. With a sneer, he asked Sergio, "Well, did your God feed you for the last four days?"

Sergio replied, "You won't believe this but a cat brought me food every day."

And just at that moment the cat appeared again with another slice of bread in his mouth and laid it just outside the jail bars in reach of Sergio's hand.

With a bewildered, shocked expression, the jailor exclaimed: "That's my cat - that's my bread!!"

By Mark Finley, in his sermon on February 5, 2000

Compare this with Daniel's challenge to the Babylonian guard in Daniel 1:8-21. Also, compare this with Elijah and the providental ravens in 1 Kings 17:2-7.