A Dogged Servant

[297 words] If you were to go to the Shibuya train station in Tokyo, Japan, you would see a bronze statue honoring a dog named Hachiko.  Hachiko was born in 1923. His master was a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University. The professor would commute home on the train, get-ting off at the Shibuya train station. Every day, when his master disembarked at the station, Hachiko would be there to greet him.  On May 21, 1925, Hachiko’s master suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while at work and never returned home. For the next nine years, nine months, and fifteen days, Hachiko would go to the Shibuya train station, faithfully awaiting his master’s return. The devotion he showed caused him to be venerated by the nation of Japan.  Christians can relate to this story, because we also wait for our Master, Jesus, to return. He warns us in Matthew 24 that we…