Good evening all you beautiful people
Listening to my good friend from Namibia, while he is sitting height on the Spitzkoppe and sharing about the Blessings of God, it just strikes me that we are so blessed. Just looking at our beautiful landscape in Namibia is a blessing in itself. Listening to him reminds me of our selfishness of just “wanting stuff”. We are not content with what we have. We always want more, not sure what to do with the more, but we want it. We have an old song:”Tel jou seeeninge tel hul een vir een – Count your blessings one by one.” Let us go out this week and count our blessings and be content.
Busy time for FGC this week as a team is visiting later in the week from Malaysia. Our good friend Sunny will also be here and he always takes time to spend with the staff. Pray for open hearts as the team will teach in the village and also go out to visit some of the families.
Talking to our friend down in Paarl, Uncle Nico Kriek he shared that his wife had a knee replacement. The operation was a success but when she went home, she fell down very hard and now she cannot move and help herself. Please pray that they can find someone to help him care for his wife.
Thank you for praying for Bev Jones, she is reporting that her wound is healing very well.
Last week I shared about the revival in Nagaland and a friend sent me a link about it. Fascinating to read. Follow this link and enjoy. https://romans1015.com/nagaland/ This week I share more of this wonderful book that we read in the night.
Early missionaries to China faced a formidable obstacle. They had to learn the Chinese writing system. As Westerners, accustomed to writing with European alphabets of approximately 26 letters, they gasped! Chinese writing, they found, used a system based upon 214 symbols called “radicals.” They gasped again when they learned that those 214 radicals—enigmatic enough in themselves—combine to form between 30,000 to 50,000 ideographs. It was enough to make even the most patient saint gripe! Why on Earth would the sovereign God permit any people to develop a writing system so “radical”? Didn’t it matter to God that Chinese writing placed an almost impassable barrier in the way of communicating the gospel to one-quarter of mankind?
One day, however, one of the missionaries stopped complaining. He was studying a particular Chinese ideograph, the one which means “righteous.” He noticed that it contained an upper and lower part. The upper part was simply the Chinese symbol for a lamb. Directly under the lamb was a second symbol, the first person pronoun I. Suddenly he discerned an amazingly well-coded message hidden within the ideograph: I under the lamb am righteous! It was nothing less than the heart of the gospel he had crossed the ocean to preach! Chinese were startled when he called their attention to the hidden message. They had never noticed it, but once he pointed it out, they saw it clearly. When he asked, “Which lamb must we be ‘under’ to be righteous?” they had no answer. With consummate delight he told them of “the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world” (Rev. 13:8), the same “Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). He shared his discovery with fellow missionaries and soon they in turn began uncovering still other spiritual messages encoded within the 4,000-year-old ideographs! Chinese language study suddenly became the most exciting adventure they had ever experienced! Another example:
Richardson, Don. Eternity in Their Hearts (pp. 112-113). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Love to you all
Rossouw-clan
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