Got into a cab today and to my surprise, I heard Hebrew worship songs being played by the cab driver. After a while, I told the cab driver that I was surprised to hear Hebrew songs. He told me that he had converted to Judaism in his 40s. He said that he kept having strange dreams over many years in which he was asking people around him "who am I" in his dreams. And for some reason he felt that it was God who gave him the recurring dreams. He had been of another faith and he was given a bible. He read it and he said that even today, he still doesn't understand a lot of it. But he started believing in God the Father and he was very drawn to the Old Testament. As a result, he started meeting people who had converted to Judaism or believed in the God of the Old Testament. I asked him whether he was attending a church or synagogue and he said no, but that he would meet frequently with a small group who all believed and followed Jewish practices. He asked me "are you a believer or a follower?" My question to him was "what enables us to get to heaven?" I listened to him because he was putting forth his reasons as to why he believed in Judaism. He shared his perspectives and his understanding of the Bible. I respected that even though I may not agree with some of his views or beliefs, but I felt that it was neither the time nor place to engage him on such things. So I listen intently without rebuttal. At the end of the journey, I told him that if he continues to believe in God the Father, God will be faithful to him.
Reflection: I was brought to Matthew 7:7 by my conversation with this
cab driver. “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find;
knock, and it will be opened to you." I was deeply humbled by his
seeking heart because he is actively finding God in his own personal
way.
