She Cried—Then I Did
This Week's Theme: On God's Mission
Linda Olson
Wednesday, October 25, 2000
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Key Bible Verse: Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you (1 Peter 4:12).
Bonus Reading:1 Peter 1:6-7, 4:12-14
Prema limped into the South India room where I waited to counsel teenage girls, her brown eyes full of tears. I learned that when her devout Hindu family heard that she'd become a Christian, they beat her severely and forbade her to attend after-school Bible club meetings. Still, the 13-year-old studied the Scripture whenever possible.
"Should I obey my parents and continue to wear the vermilion dot on my forehead [symbolizing allegiance to the god Shiva]?" she asked. "Or should I refuse and risk another beating?" She raised her sari and exposed a leg badly swollen from beating.
I was stunned. I wanted "living for Jesus" to mean goodness, wholeness and laughter. I fumbled through some answer emphasizing the Lord's knowledge of her heart. then I went back to my Indian host family and cried.
On a short-term mission, I had to wrestle with the realities of being a Christian and an Indian. I still wanted to share Jesus, but I now knew I'd have to take off my own culture-tinted glasses and put on a different shade of lenses.
Linda Olson in Send Me! Respond:
When have you had to change your ideas about serving Christ? Thought to Apply:
I know enough about Satan to realize that
he would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.
James O. Fraser (China missionary)
Adapted from Steve Hoke and Bill Taylor, Send Me! (WEF/Carey, 1999). 1 of 1
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