Here is the prayer of the pastor in the video:
O God, O God!Further thoughts:
The plan which you had from the beginning regarding your Kimyals, which already existed in your Spirit!
The month that you had set, the day that you had set, has come to pass today!
O my Father, my Father!
The promise that you gave Simeon that he would see Jesus Christ and hold him in his arms before he died, I also have been waiting under the same promise, O God!
You looked at all the different languages and chose which ones will be put in your Word! You thought that we should see your Word in your language!
Today, the day you had chosen for this to be fulfilled, has come to pass!
O God, today you have placed your Word into my hands, just like you promised!
You have placed it here in our land!
And for all this, O God, I give you praise!
What blew me away through my tears as I watched this video is how trusting the Kimyals are in the sovereignty and freedom of God. When so many question it and make it a trivial matter, here these brothers and sisters are unashamed in proclaiming it.
Additionally, after I watched the video, I repented to God. I repented that I simply have not been this way toward the Word. Yes, I read it daily and I pray upon it, but its accessibility to me is something that is never questioned. I'm not sure I've ever rejoiced at my mere possession of it. Yet here we have a tribe of people who are receiving all of it in their language for the first time and rejoicing! O to have a heart like this! I pray to have a heart like this. God, give me a heart like this!
Along with that last paragraph, it also made me reflect on Amos 8. It is the chapter that immediately came to mind while watching the video, more specifically verses 11-13:
'Behold, the days are coming,' declares the Lord GOD, 'when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it. In that day the lovely virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.'This also led to my repentance. We take having possession of the Word for granted in this land and I doubt there is much reflection on ever not having it or hearing it spoken or preached. Yet we have the Kimyals rejoicing at their first complete copies in their language. Amen and Amen!
And [the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders] sang a new song, saying,---
'Worthy are you to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation,
and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God,
and they shall reign on the earth.' (Revelation 5:9-10)










I shared this video with my church...it is very beautiful. And as I watched it for the first time in my office and looked at how many Bibles sit there in different translations, I too repented for taking the possession of scripture for granted.
ReplyDeleteGrace and Peace,
K. Rex Butts