Book Review - Title: Sundar Singh - Footprints over the Mountains by Janet & Geoff Benge

As I read this book Sundar Singh - Footprints over the Mountain by Janet & Geoff Benge, it simply amazes me how a man, a teen in fact, like Sundar Singh will experience life change when he encounters Christ. It also does not necessarily mean that we should encounter Christ personally in order that we decide to follow Christ. But now through the testimonies of God's Word (the Holy Bible) and of lives like Sadhu Sundar Singh, you and I can by faith follow Christ and seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and live victorious lives.

That encounter Sundar had with Christ took a turn of events that had him disowned, almost killed as he was poisoned by his own family members. As he took refuge at a nearby town, he prayed to God and he arose the next day healed, knowing God still has work for him to do, starting from India, Tibet.

His heart for people as his preaching travels brought him to witness to many people, even to Hindu Sadhus who were doing penance to right themselves with God. On another icy mountain journey, he was abandoned by a traveling companion when Sundar decided to rescue a man down at the ravine. As he saved the man, he was kept warm and reached the village safely. But he saw his early traveling companion frozen dead along the trail. A lesson I learnt as we journey over mountainous life challenges, we must journey corporately.

God rescued him in many occasions - his encounter with hunger, with a cobra, with crossing a raging stream, with rescue from a death well, with preaching to bandits and also with temptations. I am also surprised that Sundar Singh came to Singapore to preach and travelled to many parts of the world too. His final journey was in April 1929 when he journeyed to Tibet and was never found.