An Unexpected Guest

I was surprised when Esther walked in with her mother for the Bible study. It turned out that her mother was actually going to join us for the study! It felt a little awkward at first, and in my heart, I was actually feeling extremely thankful that I was not leading the study today! As the discussion wore on, Esther’s mother started to get more and more involved. She shared what she felt about certain things though it wasn’t easy, since she was using a Chinese Bible and communicated better in Chinese.

In the end, I felt that it was a wonderful blessing that she was around to share with us. She did give us many insights into some of the things we were discussing about. At the end of it, she even bombarded us with a plethora of Scripture verses related to the topic of ‘pride’, which was one of the key lessons in the passage we were doing. She shared about how she was learning things from us, and how we also can learn from ‘older’ people like her. She mentioned that it is sad, that many young people today who are highly educated like us tend not to want to listen to less educated people like her. I agree with her. And it is mostly down to pride. We sometimes think that we know more than our elders just because we have a better education. But what is untested, classroom education compared to the tried and tested teachers we call experiences, trials and hardships of life?

We had an unexpected guest today, and with her came unexpected blessings from God. Thank you Father for your wonderful surprises in life!