“Hi Sam, I received your name from a mutual acquaintance, and I wanted to talk with you. I’m Jewish and my wife is a now a believer in Jesus. And I have some questions.”
“Let’s get together and talk, David*.”

A week later we were together in my office. “How can I help you, David?”
“Sam, my wife and others would want me to consider Jesus. But as a Jew – and I want to stay a Jew – I don’t think I can. I know you are Jewish, but how can I believe in Jesus as a Jew? Admittedly, since Bar Mitzvah, I haven’t been very religious, but I still don’t want to give up being a Jew.”
“And you shouldn’t, David.” I shared with David some of my story, and how the Lord got my attention forty years ago. “David, there were Scriptures that really made me curious. One is Isaiah 53.” I opened my Bible and we went over Isaiah 53. I noted those verses that spoke about Messiah’s death, and resurrection. “When believers first showed me this I thought they were trying to trick me since it seemed far too clear. I figured they must have taken part of their Bible and stuck it in mine!”
“But the more I looked into –even to disprove it –the more convinced I became.” I explained to David that as I was becoming convinced, I prayed asking God to provide a more convenient Messiah!
David laughed, “I know the feeling.”
After coming to faith, I thought I was the only real Jew who had ever done such a thing, but of course there are many.”
“What did you do then, Sam?”
“I started reading the Bible. I was surprised that the New Covenant (New Testament) was prophesied in the Hebrew Scriptures.” We read Jeremiah 31:31-34 together to see how the forgiveness of sins and personal relationship found in the Good News was prophesied to Israel.
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, . . . this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. . . . For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
“David,” I said, “Messiah gives us new life.”
“Yes, I see now what my wife has been trying to explain to me. I realize I don’t have this new life!”
I shared with David more of my initial struggles as a Jew, and I decided I’d take a step of faith myself. “David, can you think of one good reason not to place your faith in Yeshua as your Messiah?” David looked me right in the eye and said, “I’d very much like to do that.”
I led David in a simple prayer of trusting in Messiah Yeshua as His Lord and Savior. I then asked him to pray silently, admitting to God whatever he could remember which is wrong in God’s sight. I reminded him of the cleansing in Messiah’s atonement, explaining God’s assurance that those matters and much more have been forgiven.
Afterwards, I prayed for David, for his assurance and growth. I gave him The Messianic Answer Book and Messianic Discipleship, encouraging him that we would be studying them together.
I looked at the calendar and said “today is your spiritual birthday, David. You can tell people that today you became a child of God. And, David it would be good to share your faith with others.” As I walked him out we passed Miriam’s office. “Miriam, this is David. David, tell Miriam what just happened.” He said, “I trusted in Messiah today,” followed by rejoicing and hugs. We passed Matt’s office and then Natalia’s, and each time we did the same thing. I wanted to get David used to sharing his faith.
We have talked and met since, working through the book Messianic Discipleship. Thankfully, David is growing as a healthy new believer in Yeshua. Pray for him as he grows in his faith.

**name changed for privacy