Roma Diary

(Extracts from my Journal)

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Innocence is something that is so precious. The other day I was showing three little girls in a Bayash village one of the new Bible cards we have produced in the Bayash language. All three of the little ones crowded round me as I pointed to the words from John's Gospel and had them read it after me. It is incredible to think that these little ones will grow up in a world where they will have the Bible in their own language not knowing the world of their parents that has had nothing to hold them accountable in the spiritual and moral realms. It was moving to see the level of trust they exhibited as they leaned against my knee so trusting and pure as they read.

Innocence is something that is fleeting and once lost is so hard to recover. A few hours later in another town another young woman came up to me and greeted me in Croatian. I asked her to switch to Bayash as it was easier for me. She was a little girl who had been in some of our meetings two years ago. She had now become a prostitute according to reports and was known as being a low end girl. As we talked something inside of me wanted to bring out a Bible card and have her read the words in the same innocent way as the little ones earlier. It was too late for that.

Innocence can be restored by the Gospel. The truth is that is innocence is defiled but it is a lie to say that it is lost forever. There is the Blood of the everlasting covenant that takes dirty and ruined lives and makes them pure in the sight of the one who determines what is and what is not innocent.

May God, bring the innocence of the Gospel into the lives of the Bayash people. May the Gospel enter their world though His Word. May His Word soon be available in their toungue.

"In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'" Abraham Kuyper

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Bob and Nancy Hitching
Trnovecka ulica 2
Varaždin
Croatia 42000
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Bob and Nancy Hitching
Trnovecka ulica 2
Varaždin
Croatia 42000
Main Mobile +385 91234 7757
Handheld IM Yahoo RomaniMission
www.bobhitching.com