Traveling by train in Romania

Several years ago, my family was on a trip back home from Romania. We had a dozen suitcases with us. The ticket agent in Iasi, where we lived, would frequently and graciously block off other seats in our compartment so we would have room for our luggage. She did so on this occasion. But the train conductor, as he came by to take our tickets, did not like all our suitcases in that compartment.

He fussed at us that we were over the limit and violating rules by having the suitcases sitting on the floor. We were supposed to have the suitcases in the luggage compartment, where, incidentally, we could not keep an eye on them. We would have to pay a fine, he said.

I told him if we were to pay a fine, it would be at the train station in Bucharest, after we weighed all the suitcases. Beyond that, the train conductor made a mistake. Two actually. He took on Rachel – who could speak Romanian and he showed us the rule book. He left to continue his work and said he would be back.

Based on the rule book, we knew we were under the weight limit and under the luggage limit. It was simply a matter of getting the suitcases off the floor, which we promptly resolved by putting them in the empty passenger seats! When he returned about an hour later, Rachel spoke with him in the hallway, pointing out that we were following the rules. He expressed his exasperation with Rachel, fussing, “Why are you bothering me?!”
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The devil tries to get our service in this life but the same two offensive weapons are at our disposal against him. First, we “speak his language.” That is, we know how he attacks us, when, where, etc. If we know ourselves, we know our weaknesses. We know how to defend ourselves against him. “We would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs” (2 Corinthians 2:11), Paul writes.

Second, Rachel had an “ace up her sleeve” – he showed her the rule book! She knew what the rules were and used that against the conductor. When we know God’s word, we know how to fight against Satan and all his schemes. The Bible was given to us for that very purpose. Paul wrote: “we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes” (Ephesians 4:13-14).

–Paul Holland

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