“Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I raise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say surely the darkness will hide me and light become night around me, even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.” (Psalm 139:7-12 NIV)
Spring is here, and with it come Spring Break and vacations from school and in some cases work. One day last spring, we took one such vacation and had plans to get out of our city of service and even out of our state/prefecture to travel to the next prefecture over. We were going to take our kids to an amusement park. We had not expected to see anyone we knew there because of the distance and the fact that it was a weekday (the park was practically empty). But The-God-Who-Goes-With-Us also had gone before us and had set it as a plan in the heart of a Japanese woman to take her son to that very same park on that very same day and at that very same time. This woman was the mother of a boy from our son’s previous year’s kindergarten class. Our sons had played together and we knew each other as well. I had shared the gospel with her on occasion. After graduating kindergarten, however, our boys had ended up at different elementary schools. She and I were pleasantly surprised to see one another at the amusement park that day. This story is just one example out of many of how we saw God at work orchestrating divine appointments between us and the Japanese among whom we served our first term in Japan. These odd meetings not only caught our attention but even the Japanese themselves marveled at such unexpected “coincidences”. We see God ever with us and continuously trying to capture the attention and hearts of the Japanese among whom we serve. Please pray for God to move the Japanese beyond mere wonder at his work to a willingness to embrace Him as their Creator, Sustainer and Only Savior God.
by Donna Qualls
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