What is the greatest thing in life?

I’m driving a car on a very bumpy and dusty road, that have to be very difficult to drive in the rainy season, we are driving very slow, while I’m talking to my interpreter and Shan friend Alo. He is a Shan man that God has raised up from a to be a narcotic addicted person and a person without hope to an effective evangelist amongst his own un-reached people group. While he is talking I can sense his heart for God and his people. He has a great testimony to and has experienced a lot with God the last three years; he can even tell me that he has been healed from a lung disease.

After 15-20 minutes on this bumpy road we are at the destination. We have come to a bamboo hut in the middle of an orange farm. This is one of the five cell-groups Alo has started in the last year. It has no electrical power, so the only form of light is a diesel lamp that burns black. We are sitting down in this small hut around the lamp, and it is about then people gathered here this evening. Some of them had walked for almost one hour to get to this cell-group. Alo is telling me that about seven of the people are not Christian yet. When I am about to share the gospel with them, I can feel a very special atmosphere in the hut. When I share the gospel everyone is paying very good attention, even the kids there are sitting still. This is not the usual as I had experienced in the other cell-groups. I shared my testimony and taught them about God as the creator that wants to have a personally relationship with us, and the message of hope. After about half and hour Alo is taking over, and we got a lot of question about God and who Jesus is, that we tried to answer as best as we could. It takes time for a Shan to grasp the gospel, because of their strong Buddhist background. Buddhism is really far away from Christianity. They have no understanding of who God is, and less who Jesus is. I knew that the fruit was not ready to harvest yet this evening, but I know that God had done something with them. Some days later we also showed the Jesus movie in this village, then about 20-30 people came and watched it.

I had another great experience when I sat and listen to Alos teaching. I was reflecting over what a great privilege it is to sit here and share the gospel with people for the first time, and to an un-reached people group. I could not imagine something more satisfying in life. I really had a joy and a satisfaction in my heart that I seldom have experienced before.

A week later when I interviewed the leader of the work and a missionary called Mario, and asked him what is the greatest thing you have experienced out here, he asked that it most be to sit down and share the gospel with an un-reached people group. I could really identify with him.

This experience was very special and I wish I could have sheared it with all of you. Just tell me if you are going to or want to go to Thailand one time, and I’ll bring you to this people group.

Taken from www.btww.net