5/16/10

Attended 2 church services with the girls today! So cool to attend a service lead in Hindi (though I ended up watching two of the girls' kids) because they were becoming restless.

Went to Roja afterwards (where the girls who haven't graduated yet live) and ate lunch with them. Sat outside in the sun with them. Had my first henna design drawn all over my arm by one of the girls! Spoke with the "house-mom/volunteer" named Yuimi who has one of the most incredible testimonies I have ever heard. I was captivated by what she had to say for 2 hours plus. I told (more like pleaded or demanded) that she write these accounts down and turn it into a book...I seriously had chill bumps almost the whole time she was speaking!

Had some great talking time with the girls, and though I wish more than anything I could carry on a conversation with them in Hindi, I understand learning English for them is only going to help them (esp. in their hopes of getting a job one day--other than jewelry making if they so desire).

In Rabi Maharaj's book Death of a Guru, Rabi really drives home the point of John 14:6-7 which says is one of the most fundamental/famous verses Jesus ever speaks:

"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (7) If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."

When I feel the Lord is really trying to teach me something, He repeats a verse or idea/thought more than once to me. (He knows I have a terrible memory, ha!) Well I had just finished this riveting book, and thinking about it for the past few days and as soon as I walked into Union Church, the one verse that was on a plaque over the altar was John 14:6.

I think this idea that Jesus is the only way (aside from being offensive to the world) is such an important element for ex-hindu's to believe. Many times they just associate him as one of the gods or a "Christian god," and although they acknowledge he is a "good teacher" or a "good" god, they do not really care what He has to say about himself. Believing Jesus for who he actually is (and not what others say about him but what he has to say about himself) is a huge difference that many people skim over. He is who they want him to be but have never actually read or contemplated the red letters. And if the Bible isn't true? Then where else are you

finding his teachings from?

This is still an unfinished thought-process but I thought it was worthy of mentioning, because I feel God has brought it to my attention (more than once).