The best way???
December 7, 2009
The other day as I was praying about how to share God’s love with many Japanese I had an idea. I thought, I could go to the train station here in Utsunomiya early in the morning as hundreds (Utsunomiya is a small city) of Japanese come and go through the train station and stand with a sign that says, in English, “Good Morning”, “Have a Good Day”, “Do Your Best”. As people rushed by I thought I could greet them and hope that at a later time I could share more about God’s love with them.
Therefore the next day I went to the train station and as I watched the people go up and down the stairs I prayed for them. As I prayed, God impressed upon my heart this verse. Ephesians 2:12, …”remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.” These Japanese are without hope because they are without God.
After watching and praying, I felt the Lord impressing upon me that rather than trying to greet hundreds of them at the station, the best way to reach them was still one on one. I still go to the station to pray for the Japanese as they come and go, but I try, as often as I can, to tell them individually about the God of hope who died and rose again so that they could know Him and real hope.
Join me in praying for the Japanese who live in and around Utsunomiya. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to say that the Japanese are a people with hope and with God?
By Bob Gierhart
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