south asia: the only way

Yeshoda grew up in Nepal and daily saw the great needs of people around her. Before she even went to university, she knew that long-term she wanted to be involved in social work in a NGO. She also knew NGOs often preferred hiring humanities graduates rather than graduates of other subjects, so that decided her course of study.

Though she suffered much opposition after committing her life to Christ, his amazing love for her spurs her on. She shares: 'I attended a gospel camp organized by the Nepalese IFES movement and it equipped me in my desire to share the good news of Jesus.'

Yeshoda continues: 'My friends often ask: Why are you ready to die for your religion? Why are you not like us? Are you paid for this? Is your God more important than your career? For them, all religions are the same so they don't understand how Jesus could be the only way. I do doubt at times: Are they right? Is it true? Why are these things happening to me?

'It's also sometimes hard to see where my faith fits with what I study in sociology. We study different worldviews, myths and religious stories, different traditions which make people believe that all the religions are same, including Christianity.

'Yet whenever I question what I believe, God speaks to me from the Bible and gives me better answers than I expected. He takes away my doubts, in the midst of my tears, and gives me a deep peace that warms my heart.'

Give thanks to God for his living word that is our refuge. Pray for Yeshoda – and for students around the world – as they wrestle with questions linked to their subject of study and seek God's help in answering them. Pray that they would delight more and more in God's word and apply it to their lives in such a way that their classmates will see the difference it makes and be drawn to Christ.

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