Sahas works as a tailor today after God rescued him from prison. |
His own lie put him behind bars and the grace of God set him free.
A desire to join his Asian nation’s army led 23-year-old Sahas Verma to submit a false high school diploma with his enlistment paperwork. The government found out about the faulty record and put the young man in jail.
So rather than going to military training, Sahas was sitting in a locked cell, separated from his bride of only one month, Raaka, and from his friends and relatives.
Sahas and his family tried in vain to gain his release, but days—then weeks—passed, and he was still in jail.
Gospel for Asia-supported national missionary Dakshi Mehra met Sahas’ family and heard about his plight. He sympathized with Sahas and his mistake, and he prayed for this young husband, his wife and his relatives, comforting them with God’s Word. He counseled them to stop pursuing man’s legal recourse, and to turn instead to the infallible justice and mercy of God. He also assured them he and the entire church would pray for his deliverance.
Meanwhile, Sahas had almost resigned to living out his life as a nameless face among thousands of forgotten criminals.
But God had a different plan.
One day, not long after the pastor’s visit, the news came. God had answered their prayers. Sahas was being freed.
When he came home, Sahas found his family changed. And when he heard about the mercy and love of Christ, Sahas realized his own sin, confessed it to God and became a new creation. He is now on probation, working to clean up his record—and his life.
God’s mercy on Sahas did not end when the key opened the lock that held him in prison. Today, Sahas and Raaka are proud parents, and Sahas cares for his growing family by working as a tailor. When he is working at his sewing machine each day, Sahas’ thoughts often drift back to that jail cell, and it is then that he thanks the Lord for the promise of His mercy and for his regeneration.