God Places in Front of Christians the People to Help, to Help You or Both
By Bobby Kushner / June 20, 2026
CAMBRIDGE, ONT. – I arrived yesterday at the end of a weekly Bible study at Grace Bible Church in Cambridge, Ontario. A routine of mine for meeting up with a few people while avoiding the Bible study.
A friend of mine from the study, John Ryan, later strolled with me to Trinity Park, also in Cambridge, to chat about Christian stuff!
As we chatted about the book of Genesis, a man flanked us and said, “You guys mind if I just listen to you guys talk?”
“Of course,” John cracked a smile at the man and said.
“We chatting about the book of Genesis,” I said to the man. “Come, join us,” before I shot a smile at him as wide-as-the-horizon.
Sensing something off, we both shot a second look at the man and noticed his lips quivering and the tears streaming down his cheeks as he avoided eye contact with us and sat cross-legged on the lawn.
John and I both then looked at another slackjawed, for we just chatted earlier about God placing in front of Christians the people he wants us to help, to help us or both.
“What’s troubling you,” John said to the man.
The man’s hands trembled as he cracked open a beer, knocked it back and said, “My girlfriend of years has been cheating on me. She wants to work it out, but I can’t take it. I can’t do this! I was on my way to get more drugs then kill myself. However, I asked God for a sign and ended up here.
“Been doing drugs all week to numb this out. Man, I can’t take it. My mom’s at my place now because I told her I needed her help, so she drove down from Barrie to help me.”
“Wow, that’s a nice mother you got,” I said to him.
The man eyed me with more tears streaming down his cheeks, “You struggled with addiction?”
“Yes,” I said. “with Ritalin until my early 30s.”
“And you,” the man now eyed John.
“No,” John smiled. “but yes to what you feeling right now from a few bad breakups.”
I crawled over to the man, embraced him and said, “This heartache you feeling right now always happens when you’re having sex with someone you shouldn’t be doing that stuff with.
“So let’s pray for God to help you and your girlfriend with this misplaced bond, for you can’t do it on your own and neither can your girlfriend.
“Don’t believe what others telling you about just figuring this out on your own.”
John now dropped to the ground, crawled over and embraced the two of us.
I cupped the man’s hands and said, “So what do you say about me praying for you right now.”
“No, do it proper,” the man snapped back.
John and I burst out laughing, for we both knew what he meant. The three of us now sat in a circle, joined hands and prayed.
I pulled the man in close and embraced him.
“Hey, I wanna get in on this too,” John said to us. So we both now made space for John to join us in the embrace.
In that moment, I felt a deep bond with this man, God and John.
“Look, you’re feeling better now,” I said to the man.
The man nodded and wiped the tears from his eyes.
As John patted the man’s shoulder and chatted more with him, I rifled through my backpack
for my magnesium tablets and handed the man some.
“You should take these.” I said to the man. “I always take them when agitated.”
While the man pocketed the tablets, I discovered in my backpack my missing leather-covered Bible and devotional book.
“Hey John, I found my Bible!”
“Really,” John said.
“Ya, really. Looked everywhere for that thing.”
That Bible holds significance to me, for I bought it in May 2022 and used it to start heading home to Christ in June 2025 and that devotional book because a destitute man handed it to me months earlier.
I cracked open that Bible, wrote my name and phone number on the first page, got John to do the same and handed it and my devotional book to the man.
“I want you to keep these,” I said to the man. “They’ll help you like they helped me. I feeling God wanted me to hand them to you.”
The man leaped at me and embraced me, “Hey, what do I do if I’m still struggling.”
“Call us anytime to pray or meet with you whether you struggling or not,” John said to the man.
“You allowing me to help you helps me too,” I said to the man. “For I struggling too.”
“I never done this before or felt love like this from strangers,” the man said to us.
After the man left and I walked John to his car, I looked over at John and said, “That ever happen to you before?”
“No,” John smiled.
“Wow,” I chuckled. “God does some pretty cool stuff.”
“But hey Bobby, you’re broke, so what you gonna do for another Bible and devotional book?”
“Not sure,” I smiled at John. “As Jesus said, ‘You lose what you hold tight.’”
I then shot in on John, butterfly gripped his waist and grinned at him.
“Already got the perfect study Bible picked out for you, Bobby,” John said. “You’ll see.”
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Photo of Paul Tucker at the Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church in Kitchener, Ontario.
Photo of Paul Tucker at the Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church in Kitchener, Ontario.
Photo of John Ryan at Victoria Park Galt in Cambridge, Ontario.