Talking Back

So, I just wrote about our day in Dubout, talking with people about faith in Jesus, and leaving homes with a solar radio tuned to 4VEH that will encourage them, give them news, sports, music, health & farming advice.

But my favorite memory of the day is this one:

Why? Because when this guy (think his name is Georges) heard sounds coming out of the radio, he held it up close. As Storly's voice started speaking the words at the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew (the radio has the New Testament as an MP3), Georges started responding, "Wi,...wi,...wi" ("Yes...yes...yes").

Struck me that the whole Bible is basically God talking to us. Telling us through history, through the lives of people like Moses, like David in the Old Testament; like Paul in the New Testament, that He loves us and wants us to redeem us. What's our response?

Hope it's "Wi...wi...wi".

P.S. Before we started working on this radios project, I'm not sure I'd ever listened to the Bible - read it, yes. Studied it, yep. Memorized verses, yep. But listened to someone else reading (other than in church), I thought it was really for people who couldn't read the Bible for themselves. BUT, I've come to appreciate the richness of hearing the Bible read. Max Mclean's audio version, The Listener's Bible, is just gorgeous. Helps that he has a British accent too, of course. Check out this link for a free download of the Gospel of John and see what you think.