Seed Company Meetings – Monday
Monday was my favorite day of the Seed Company Meetings and may remain so throughout the meetings. One part of every set of meetings offers the entire staff an opportunity to stand up and share what they’ve seen God do around the world. Story after story was shared and I won’t be able to share them all here, but here is a taste slightly paraphrased for reading…
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It was said that in one community, the translation team’s work was going later than normal. As the sun sank lower, the team said to one of the translators, “Don’t you want to go home now now? The path home is dangerous.” Many people who go out on the trails late at night die for mysterious causes that people have come to attribute to evil spirits and it seems likely to be true.
“How can I?” he said. “I have to translate this and share it with the men I meet with regularly!”
Why was he so insistent? He was translating some very meaningful Scriptures about God’s strength in a time of trouble from Habakkuk including 3:16-19
I heard and my heart pounded,
my lips quivered at the sound;
decay crept into my bones,
and my legs trembled.
Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity
to come on the nation invading us.Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,yet I will rejoice in the LORD,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.The Sovereign LORD is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to go on the heights.
What amazing timing for a people who felt under siege by “the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms!” (Read more about the passage I just quoted)
The great new is that this is hardly an isolated instance. God is working powerfully to help people around the world through Bible translation even before a whole book or testament or Bible is done. Talk to me sometime and I’ll tell you more stories.
