Life in his region was hard. Suspicion was everywhere. One wrong move, one wrong word, and you could disappear.

He lived with several other men—quiet, disciplined, and careful. They all worked, kept to themselves, and did their duty.

Or so he thought.

Outwardly, he was committed to his militant group and its cause. Inwardly, he was restless. Night after night, he had dreams he couldn’t explain—dreams of a man in white, with eyes that pierced straight through him. Sometimes the man spoke his name. Sometimes He said nothing, but he would wake up with a strange peace he didn’t understand.

He told no one. He buried the dreams under layers of secrecy.

One afternoon, he came home earlier than usual. The door was closed, but inside, he could hear voices. When he walked in, his roommates froze.

On the table in front of them was a phone, open to a story about Jesus. They weren’t just reading it—they were talking about what it meant.

He knew exactly what he was supposed to do. His duty was clear.

But something in him hesitated. Those dreams… that peace… this man Jesus… Could it be connected?

Before he could speak, they looked at him and said, “We can’t keep this from you any longer. We follow Jesus. These stories have changed our lives.”

They told him about a man who had shown them how to use a Bible-reading app called Waha. It had the Scriptures in their language, along with simple questions that anyone could ask.

They said, “If you read these stories, they might change your life too.”

He sat down. They opened the app together, and one of them read from a story. As they spoke, something deep inside him stirred—like the dreams he’d been having, but stronger, clearer.

For the first time, he saw that this Jesus was not just for someone else—He was calling him.

Following Him would mean leaving everything he knew. It would mean walking away from the group that had been his identity. It would put a target on his back.

But the pull was stronger than his fear. The peace he felt in those moments with the Scriptures was more real than the life he’d been living.

He left his old life. He began meeting with his roommates regularly to read from the Waha app. They introduced him to others, and he discovered there were more believers than he ever imagined—quiet, hidden, but alive.

He still lives in a dangerous place. There are people who would call him a traitor. But he has traded the constant tension of watching his back for the deep peace of knowing the One who was calling him in his dreams all along.

Now, when he thinks about that day he walked in and caught them reading the Bible, he sees it for what it really was: the day Jesus caught him.