Amazing Grace - how sweet the sound
Prang has told me before about Jesus coming to people in their dreams. People who are curious about Christianity, even hungry for it, yet not ready to make a decision about believing. Yah had a dream, a local twenty-something town drunk had a dream. And Prang’s always had to tell me because my Thai hasn’t been good enough to understand. But today I got to hear it for myself...
I was going for a bike ride. Prang was running errands. We planned to meet to visit a family in her village. The family is taking in a nephew so he can continue going to school. He finished elementary school, and his parents can’t afford to bus him to a school with secondary education. He’s moving to his aunt and uncle’s near Prang’s so he can go to 7th grade here. We needed to talk with them because we had agreed a month ago to help support the nephew's schooling. His aunt and uncle hardly have enough to provide for their own family.
I got to the house before Prang and was talking with the aunt. She was telling me how the nephew can hardly read; what a pity, she said. What can she do? How can she help? God will help, right? I assumed she just slipped that in because she knows we’re Christians. To my knowledge, she hadn’t been interested in being a Christian.
Then she told me about getting a book at the big tent meeting we went to in March. She read the entire book, she told me. (It was a new testament. Quite a feat for anyone in less than 2 months, let alone someone with her 6th grade education.) Then she had a dream. Jesus came to her wearing a white outfit. He had long hair. He came to her and offered her a present, neatly wrapped. She took the present.
By this time, Prang is talking with us. Did she know what the present was? No, but after the dream, she stopped praying
to spirit houses and buddhist idols. She quit arguing with her husband
all the time. She started praying to God. Prang’s asking her how she prays and explaining why we pray in Jesus’ name. The aunt then tells us that as the 3 of us Christians are here talking together, God is with us. Yep, right on, we agree! She goes on to say that she's always been
discontent in her poverty, always wanting this and that. She feels
that she now has enough. She feels happy.
It’s one thing to hear stories about God working miracles and appearing in dreams. But it’s quite another to hear and understand this from someone myself. God is amazing, amazing in His power, and amazing in His grace, and it is quite sweet to hear about it in Thai.
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