Jul
01, 2012 04:00 am
Today's
Devotional
1
Timothy 4:12 "Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but
set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in
purity."
What
a blessing it was to have Asians reaching Asians for Christ! Although they had
never served as missionaries abroad before, Chan and Esther introduced new
methods to reach peoples in Thailand and other Asian countries for Christ. One
thing people often forget is that young missionaries are often vibrant and
energetic, ready to do anything for their Lord. The same is true for young
churches, and the people they send out.
As
the Korean church becomes more mature, pray that they don’t lose their fervency
for sharing Christ with the nations.
Today's
People Group
Many
people would have panicked, but not Chan Young Choi. During the Korean War
(1950-53), he once had to run with nothing but the clothes on his back from his
house when it was being bombed. Later in the war, he could have been killed
when the North Korean army captured him. But as he prayed, he realized that his
life was not his own. The Lord had given him life for a reason, so it must be
fully dedicated to Him. In 1954 after the war had ended, he was commissioned as
a missionary in the General Assembly of the Korean Presbyterian Church. He was
given a scholarship to attend Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena,
California. As he was preparing for a season of study, his mission committee
asked Chan and his wife, Esther, to pray about serving as Korea’s first foreign
missionaries since the end of the war. The couple prayed all night. By dawn
they knew that God did not want them to take the easy route of living in
comfortable California. Pasadena would have to wait until he retired in 1992.
For now, the young couple chose to serve the Lord in Thailand.|At first it was
hard for the Thai people to fathom the idea of an Asian Christian missionary.
Many Thai felt that Christianity was the white man’s religion. At that time
Korea was struggling to recover from the war, and Thailand had a relatively
strong economy.
Pray
for today’s Korean missionaries to be dedicated to doing whatever God tells
them to do.
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