wonderment

But if our wrongdoing only underlines and confirms God’s rightdoing, shouldn’t we be commended for helping out? Since our bad words don’t even make a dent in his good words, isn’t it wrong of God to back us to the wall and hold us to our word? These questions come up. he answer to such questions is no, a most emphatic No! How else would things ever get straightened out if God didn’t do the straightening?

It’s simply perverse to say, “If my lies serve to show off God’s truth all the more gloriously, why blame me? I’m doing God a favor.” Some people are actually trying to put such words in our mouths, claiming that we go around saying, “The more evil we do, the more good God does, so let’s just do it!” That’s pure slander, as I’m sure you’ll agree.

~ Paul argues for the cause of the gospel in Rome (Rom 3)

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Jeri brought a Vietnamese friend, Wan, to the studios today. She’s graduating from TTC in just a couple of weeks time and FEBI is hoping she can be part of the Vietnamese programming section.

We spent some time in the studio letting her do a bit of recording as well as explaining a bit about how gospel radio works. It’s real exciting to see someone get a vision for the ministry and want to serve.

Later, I got to listen to a little part of her salvation testimony and somehow God just has His right timing. Wan came to Christ 25 years ago … through her love for the piano. Apparently, one of Wan’s friends first brought her to church but that friend was hardly a good Christian testimony and even the pastor’s character left a lot to be desired. However, a deaconess in that church shepherded her and loved her and brought her to Christ. Now she’s in seminary and preparing to be a servant for Christ.

For my poor little one track mind, it sure didn’t occur to me that God could use anyone, good testimony or not. For a long while, I’ve wondered how I would bring people to Christ if my life wasn’t as perfect as I’d like it to be. I even chastised myself for not being as nice, as loving, as generous, as patient, as blah blah as I’d like to be. Come to think of it, it’s a real good excuse not to bring someone to church.

Wan has come one full circle now. Besides her friend, she was exposed to FEB’s Vietnamese broadcasts as a little girl and now she is preparing to go back into the same field that sowed those first seeds.

Wow. We’re all miserable sinners, worthy of a thousand deaths, but God makes our life stories rich and meaningful so that we can be really, a lighted city on a hill.