Translated Into My Language & Yours

Tonight at church we heard the testimony from another member in our church who was a missionary to the field of Japan. I have known her for about 12 years and yet I learned some interesting facts that I didn't know. She graduated from college with a teaching degree but after one year felt she wanted to do something else so she applied with the army and was sent as a civilian to Japan. There she met the man she would marry and they came back to the United States t o prepare to go back to Japan as missionaries. They stayed on the field until 1995 when he passed away. He was Japanese and was used greatly on the field as an interpreter and speaker. She told how he turned all conversations toward Christ and shared the love of God with all those they came in contact.

At one point he drew the above verse for her. It read "God love is" in Japanese. She explained how there are over 3000 kanjis and students must learn 1800 in order to graduate. She learned 300. And yet she knew enough to read this verse that he wrote out for her. It gave a message that they lived out in their lives.

I John 4:8

"He who does not love does not know God, for God is love."

God is love can be translated into many languages:

spanish-Dios es amor

german = Gott ist die Liebe

greek = Ο Θεός είναι αγάπη

french = Dieu est amour

italian = Dio è amore

rusian= Бог есть любовь

hebrew = . אלוהים הוא אהבה

afrikaans = God is liefde

And yet it doesn't matter what language it is written or translated into, it still has the same meaning.

As we live one day at a time, God is always there and He IS love to everyone. He gave the ultimate-His life, to show His love for all of us. And you can know His love-you only have to accept it and then we need to show God's love to everyone else.

I John 4:9-11

"In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another."