During this past year light was able to break through the darkness which surrounded Chauyi Lam. She was a foreign exchange student from Hong Kong who was with us each Sunday at our church worship gatherings last school year as she was staying with one of our parishioner families. We watched as over that school year "the light of Christ"slowly, almost imperceptibly, overwhelmed the darkness that surrounded her in the spiritual realm. It was like the dawning of a clear day when one has been out in the predawn darkness. The light comes on so slowly that one tends to be surprised at where the darkness went. It disappears so that what was shrouded becomes visible.
Chauyi turned from darkness and became a follower of Jesus, God the Son, on a Tuesday evening last May after attending a Gideon banquet with seven others of us here in Cassopolis. As she watched the presentation she was saddened to note on a world map chart that her country, China, was closed to the distribution of Gideon Bibles. A long discussion ensued upon her arrival home after the banquet which culminated in her realization that God the Father had given his only Son, Jesus Christ, just for her. It really struck home with her because of the importance of the only, elder son in her culture. A photo of her is in our "trophy case" at the church building and this is the verse I will place under it this week: "You...are a letter from Christ...the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts." 2 Corinthians 3:3.
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