Part of the Story
The year was 1968 when a little orphan girl wandered in from the street into the Christian church in the small town in South Korea. She was mesmerized at what she witnessed inside the sanctuary. Children and adults were dressed in costume and practicing a procession toward a man and woman huddled around a feed trough at the front of the church.
The little girl didn’t know what the whole scene meant as her family had been Buddhist and she had never known about the Christ child. The little girl wanted so desperately to have a part in the grand re-enactment that occurred in the church, but she didn’t know how.
She finally walked out of the church into the street and back to the orphanage which was her home. Every time that she passed the church, she would think of that scene and how badly that she wanted to be a part in that wonderful production.
A year later, she was adopted by an American family and brought to the U.S., where she grew up. She never quite let go of her Buddhist faith and continued to believe that there were many paths to find God.
Many years later, her best friend, Diana, invited her to a Bible study at First United Methodist Church in Nacogdoches. She reluctantly agreed and began attending regularly with her friend. Through the grace of God reaching out to her through the illumination of His Word and the fellowship with Christians who loved her, she finally came to trust in Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior. She had never forgotten the live nativity scene at that little church in her hometown in South Korea and how much she had wanted to play a part in the story.
Today, that little girl is my wife and the mother to our children. She lives each day as an ambassador for the Lord in Christ’s marvelous story of redeeming a lost world. She finally gets to play the part that she always wanted to play from the time that she was a little Buddhist girl in a country on the other side of the world.
2Corinthians 5:20; So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”
