God's
Amazing Move
"Save the baby" a voice surged through me as I
beheld in terror, my 9 months old half brother was ready to be butchered by my
schizophrenic step mother. I jumped and grabbed the baby and saved him from the
wild step mother. I was all alone with the mad step mother in a small room in
Kathmandu. I took the baby and crouched in the corner of the room that was in Kathmandu, while she cast her fierce face on me but did not harm me. Of course, I was only 5. That same voice told me, "Bhaju, what
are you doing here in the Buddhist monastery?" while I was attending the
church on Sabbath and learning the teaching of Buddha on Sundays in my village,
Dhuilihel. That same voice told me in 1969,
"Accept Me, I will take care of you the rest of your life." while I
was in the valley of decision to accept Jesus or not. The same voice that tells
"This is the way walk in it" one day told me, "You start a Bible
study in the Central Church of Kathmandu." "Lord, it is not my job,
let the pastors of the church do it, let Nepal Field do it (Of course Nepal
Field is wounded now), You know I don't have time. Anyway who will come?"
I argued back as a little child does to his father.
Finally, the
Voice became louder especially in the present pot holes circumstances in our
church, along with Pr. Umesh skeptically I announced last Sabbath, "If
anyone wants to come to interactive Bible study, please come to the church
between 5-5:30 PM on this Tuesday (March 5, 2013). I will lead the study, since
we don't have a Bible college, but at least we can share the Bible knowledge".
I knew it means committing myself over two hours of public bus ride. I knew it
means traveling over 14 km after my work, I also knew that it means along with
other evenings, I was going to give up doing other important things in Tuesday
evening.
When that
Tuesday came, reluctantly I went to the church thinking I would be happy to see
even if there were enough quorums that Jesus prescribed, "Two or
three". When I was there I was flabbergasted
to see about a dozen people, men, women, children and students waiting for me
and at the end of hour there were nearly two dozen in spite of no electricity.
As we discussed the expectations of the study session, one believer said, "I have been in the
church for over 4 years, and I don't know what the Bible is". Joined by
Pr. Umesh, I felt overwhelmed at the interest to study God's word seriously. In
fact they rightly complained saying one evening a week was not enough.
At the end of our
fruitful hour that passed so quickly without our notice, we also decided to
have a special prayer night this Saturday evening- to pray for Maya Tamang (featured
in my blog entitled, "Wrestling with demons") who has been getting reoccurrence
of possession after she decided to take baptism, for other members, for the
country and specially also for our wounded church,
God is
Wonderful. He uses amazing tact to show He cares, He loves and interested in
let Him be known more by those who want to know Him.
Won't you join
with me in praying for our saints in Nepal, who are hungry for God's words as we move on with systematic study?
With a vision to have this study group grow and eventually inspire to have a seminar,
Bhaju Ram Shrestha
March 7,2013
bhajupurna@gmail.com
The Hungry Hearts
