Tuesday, July 9 - Romans 10

HOW CAN THEY HEAR?

¹⁴ How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? ¹⁵ And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"

   Recently, when I was teaching some of our Karenni friends about the Ten Commandments, I asked them if the commandments were familiar to them.  Some of them shook their heads up and down, but one woman very candidly declared, "Please tell us.  We want to learn what God wants from us and we do not have the Commandments written in our language."

   "Wow," I thought, "even the Ten Commandments are new material for many of these foreign brothers and sisters."  And I wondered how many people throughout the world do not have the opportunity, like we do, to read God's Word as translated for us by scholars and linguists.

    And suddenly I began to pray for these types of workers to be sent into the harvest field.  Because, while my words of instruction are valuable, there is no substitute for having the Bible to refer to and enjoy.

    Do you take the Bible for granted?  I know I often do.  People out in the world are hungry to have the Word, and, so often, mine is underused.  For many the Bible sits on the shelf and merely gathers dust.

   Please take the time today to pray for Bibles to be made available to all who wish to have them, and for linguists to make it possible for all people to read the Word of God in their own tongue.  And also, please pray that more and more Christians who have the Word on their bookshelves might take the time to use it regularly and frequently.