About halfway through class, the girl sitting next to me, Nou, asked why we had come to Cambodia. We talked about this briefly when we first started teaching in the beginning of the month, but it hasn’t come up outside of one on one conversations with the students. I began sharing my testimony of where I was at prior to the race and that I felt the Lord was telling me that He had a different plan for my life. I shared what we’ve been doing on the WR, and the joy that He had brought me as I was following the path that He had laid down for me. She then asked why I believed in God. With God’s help, I shared the gospel with the students and told them how much He loves them and has a very specific purpose and plan for their life.
After class, Nou came up to me and thanked me for answering all of her questions. She said that she is already a believer but she wanted her classmates to hear about Jesus. She said that there are so many different belief’s and religions and she knew that they needed to hear the Truth.
Man, how encouraging! This is an amazing example of what it looks like to be obedient in what the Lord asks us to do. Many of us would think we’re doing our part as Christians by simply believing in God, but that’s only step one of what the Lord asks of us. ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’. (Matthew 22: 37-39) We are made to bring others to Him, to share the Good News that we have already heard and accepted. We are made to glorify Him. It would have been easy for Nou to ignore God when He was asking her to ask those questions so her classmates could hear about Him. The fear of man is so present in Christianity. We’re afraid of what others might think, we’re afraid of saying something wrong, we’re afraid of being embarrassed in front of our friends, we’re afraid of failing… The truth is, no one’s opinion matters but God’s. Success is not measured but how many people accept Christ. In God’s eyes, success is measured by our obedience to Him. Nou had absolutely no control over anyone’s response to us sharing the gospel, but she did exactly what she was supposed to do and that is success. Most of the time when we’re sharing what the Lord puts on our hearts, we have no idea what the ending ‘result’ will be, but we must completely trust that the Holy Spirit has moved in that moment and long after.
