On Tuesday, we headed to Angkor Wat - an area spanning 20 square km with several temples celebrating the grandeur of the Angkor empire. This was an empire from 900 - 1300 A.D. that span the whole South East Asian peninsula reflecting the Buddhist and Hindu kings. These temples were incredible with their stone carvings, steep steps, stone pools, and beautiful reliefs. And you could climb all over them. There was another temple called Bayon that through the maze of stone and different levels you would be stared upon by a stone face carved into the many towers - it is kind of spooky. I believe that there was about 45 of these faces on the different spires that make up this temple. It is almost as if this king wanted to make sure he was remembered. Or to think of Angkor Wat and its glory, reflecting a huge civilization. The question echoed through my mind, “how did God pursue these people?” “Were there any Melchizedeks who some how knew of the great high God? Someone who did not settle on the glory of man but saw it as a mere shadow of the glory of God and that he is to be praised.”
And from the glory of God we went to the rural village of the military base Unit 51 - jumping roads, dust (they call it Cambodian snow), no running water, no electricity, but an alive Church reaching out to the community. Only one day after Angkor we were sitting around a circle sharing about our lives. The Khmer women and men decided to sing from some of their local Khmer Christian hymns. It was beautiful as they argued over which songs to sing and trying to get everyone together in there singing. For many of these people had just come to Christ a couple years ago. You could see it in their smile - the true glory of God.
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