As of today, I have another (yes another) pocket Bible that you will be able to find in my “I-carry-my-bible-books-moleskine(s)-and-wallet-in-it-bag” (not a “murse”) that I’m stoked about. Not so much, because it will help me learn this language, that some days feels impossible to learn, but because of the great things that could happen with it in this country!
About a year ago, I wrote a post, entitled Czechs’ spirituality, Life Change and the Bible…, about Sasa (Alexander) Flek, who was heading up a new translation. Well, it’s done! It should be, from what I hear, released in full by the end of the year and there are already several expressions of it out now. One of those expressions is the Novy Zakon/New Testament version that I am overjoyed to own! On one page the new NBK version (The New Bible of Kralice, or Nova Bible Kralicka) and on the other page the NLT (New Living Translation). So great! As I said, I’m stoked how this will help me, but even more stoked to stock pile these Bibles and give them out like mad to the young men I work with. Tonight I started reading the Gospel of Matthew and was very impressed with the translation. So impressed it’s hard to wait to simply get more that I can give out. Please pray that God would honor the work of Sasa and everyone that put so much time, money, love and much more into this translation. I always talk about wanting, praying for, yearning for, and laboring for a Revolution centered around the person of Jesus here in this city and country and God has given us, through the work of these dear people, a tool to help us move towards that. Please, please pray that God would use this to that extent and that lives, and this country as a whole, would be changed forever!
Anyway, I need to get to bed. Check out the website (click here) and check out the video about the translation, the translation work and a large dose of what it is like here in the Czech Republic. Yearning…