In her lesson one day a Japanese girl, named Tashee, came to the word “creator.” She did not know its meaning so looked in a dictionary and found: “creator — one who creates.” Still she could not understand. On looking in a larger dictionary she read: “creator — one who creates. A name given to God who made all things.”
This startled her — who was God? She could think of nothing else, and as she looked around she said, “God made the trees, the mountains and the stars.” She went to the temple and looking at the image of Buddha she said to herself, “It was not you, Buddha, for I never heard you made anything.”
Soon after, an old woman in the same house said to her, “I am going to a meeting, come with me.”
“What meeting?”
“A meeting to hear about God.”
“Oh, no, I don’t want any of your gods. I have a God of my own if I only knew where He is.”
But she did go to the meeting and when the missionary opened his Bible and read: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,” Gen. 1:11In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1), the girl was amazed. “Why,” she said to herself, “this is the God I am looking for,” and she could scarcely keep her seat, so eager was she to ask, “WHERE is He?”
When the meeting was over she rushed to the missionary and asked, “Is this the God that made the heaven and the earth?” She was assured that this God created everything, including ourselves, and not only did He make us, but He loved us and sent His Son down here to die for us.
Everyone born into this world is a sinner and unfit for God’s presence. But Jesus, God’s Son, bore the punishment we deserved from the hand of God, and each one that in simple faith accepts Him as his or her Saviour becomes a child of God. Have you done so, dear reader?
This was all news to the Japanese girl — a God of LOVE! Her gods were gods of hate, of revenge and of anger. This God gave His Son. All the gods she had heard of never gave anything, and the people had to give them offerings.
And so the love of God in sending His Son melted her heart, and she became a child of God by faith in Christ Jesus. (Gal. 3:2626For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:26).)
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3: 16.
ML 02/01/1959