God Speaks in Many Languages

We are reading Jesus Calling as our devotional every morning even looking up the accompanying verses.  We do this at home too but with no TV or busy schedules to interrupt us we are more attuned.  It always amazes me how often the words for the day are so applicable to our lives. 

As we noted before, we have prayer time with the staff every morning Monday – Friday.  They have set days to pray for each staff member and their families and then whatever special needs are requested.  It is a rich time to hear prayers in French, Hausa and English – in song and spoken. Scripture is read in French and English too. 

Today at prayer time we started with Ps 23.  God, who is always pursuing us.  God, who is always with us in the quiet, in the green pastures, and in the deep valleys.  It reminded me once again, “God is Enough.”

Then there is SIL whose mission is to translate languages that do not have a recorded language, ultimately producing the Bible in the native tongue.  This came about when the founder of SIL was asked by a local person in Guatemala – “If God loves me so much, how come he doesn’t speak my language?”  The founder believed that God does speak all languages and that people need to be able to read the scriptures in their own languages.  This has led to issues of literacy that are also a concentration of SIL and the center where we are.  Literacy then leads to education and that to empowerment – all with the larger purpose of reaching people with the God of love. 

Makes me think of Young Life and how the purpose there is to speak God’s language in a way that speaks to young people.  Not only does God speak English, He talks “teenage.”  He talks whatever language we need to hear.  From my Beth Moore study, God speaks the language of the heart.  It is so good to be reminded of how big our God is and how many languages of love He speaks, and He doesn’t even have Rosetta Stone.