“Don. Don! Don!” I called with ever increasing panic as an unlit barricade suddenly loomed through the windshield. The darkness and rain of the cloudy tropical night made visibility poor as we traveled home from our earlier meeting on the far side of the country. Don applied the brakes and was able to steer behind another car and avoid the barricade.

This trip had seemed to have more than its share of hazards. There was the motorcycle passing along the curb as we pulled over, the cows strung out across all four lanes of the highway, and the slow-moving trucks on the numerous stretches of two lane road. Every place we travel in this part of the world seems to have extra hazards that we seldom encounter in the Western world. Fortunately, in most cases, speeds are relatively low, and drivers here in Thailand are much less aggressive than in places like India.

There are also other types of hazards that come with living in this part of the world. Satan places barricades in the lives of our friends. Deep pits of discouragement sometimes threaten to swallow us or the missionaries with whom we work. We often narrowly avoid disastrous collisions with our host culture. We must remember to travel only at the speed that God leads, not trying to speed ahead in order to complete our own ideas of what we should be doing. Please pray with us the God will keep us and all of our missionaries safe from these hazards as we travel the road before us.

“For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone”
(Ps. 91:11, 12 ESV).

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