HERE is a story, dear children, of how God used the word “Creator” to bring Tashee, a Japanese girl, to Himself. In her lesson one day, Tashee came upon the word, “Creator” and, not knowing its meaning, looked it up in her dictionary. She was still unable to understand for her dictionary just said, “Creator—one who creates.” On looking into a larger dictionary she found, “Creator—one who creates. A name given to God who has made all things.”
This startled her—who was God? She could think of nothing else and as she looked around she said, “God made the trees, the mountains, the stars, all things!” Now this dear girl had been taught that Buddha—an idol—was God, so when she went to the heathen temple she said to herself, “It was not YOU, Buddha, for I never heard of YOU making ANYTHING.”
Soon after an old woman living in the same house as Tashee, said to her, “I am going to a meeting. Come with me.”
“What meeting?”
“A meeting to hear about God.”
“Oh, no, I don’t want any of your gods. I have a God of my own if only I knew WHERE to find Him.”
But she DID go to the meeting and when the speaker opened the Bible and read, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,” (Gen. 1:11In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)) her amazement knew no bounds. “Why,” she thought, “this is the God I am looking for!” and she could hardly keep her seat, so eager was she to ask, “WHERE is He?”
At the close of the service she rushed to the missionary and asked, “Is this the God that made the heaven and the earth—the Creator?” She was assured that the God of whom the missionary had been speaking was, indeed, the God who made all things; even Tashee herself, and not only so, but He LOVED her so dearly that, because she was a sinner, He had sent His only begotten Son to die for her. Many other things the missionary told this dear girl—things so new to her—so wonderful—until finally the love of God found its way into her dark heart and she became, by faith in the Lord Jesus, a child of the Creator—God.
Dear boys and girls, you have heard many times of the love and kindness of God—the God who made all things—the One who sent His Son to die for you—but have you laid hold of this for YOURSELVES? Tashee’s heathen gods were gods of hate, revenge and anger, always demanding offerings—never giving or loving and so her heart was soon won to God, who “so loved the world, that He GAVE His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16).
Give Him your heart to-day!
Messages of the Love of God 6/13/1948