WHO TEACHETH LIKE GOD

This is one I debated about posting in Japanese but decided against, so it's going here. I've done almost 90 pages in a Japanese book so have little time left over to do any posting on this blog! It was the other way around when I was working in English!

Wait...where is that story I decided not to use? Hm. Well, it's a simple one, and it goes like this:

At school, a Christian one started for children of missionary parents, you may remember, I was hearing all sorts of Bible stories. One I understood very well was about Achan and his stolen images.

In family devotions, we'd just been reading the verse, "Be sure your sins will find you out."  (Num. 32:23) From one incident, I learned that verse as, "BEWARE your sins will find you out."

I'd stolen ten pennies in the morning and stacked them up under my pillow--no one ever looked there--and went off to school. That day, for some reason, Mommy came into the room for a talk; sat down on my bed and lifted the pillow onto her lap to talk, exposing the small copper pillar.

Achan's God had found me out!

My mind jammed, and I felt sick. I remember the feeling in my stomach. I wanted to throw that money away. I don't think getting candy with stolen money would've been worth it at all. In fact, from that day on, the thought of acquiring ANYTHING unrightfully never appealed to me.

Some people chuckle about how impressionable children's minds are. Maybe, but I thank God that He in wisdom works with even that in ways men cannot.

How did Job put it?  "Who teacheth like God?" (Job 36:22)