A Letter to Father Who Left Home Because of Religious Persecution | Almighty God guides my family
By Qiuzheng, France
When I was very young, my mother told me that you went to a faraway place and you would come back when I grew up. At that time, I didn’t understand how far you were actually from us. I just wished I would grow up quickly — this way I could see you.
In the fall of that year, while my grandma and I were sweeping up fallen leaves in the yard, a flock of little birds on branches were chirping. Attracted by a clattering sound from a bamboo grove in the distance, I raised my head and saw a thin and healthy man who carried a big bag of luggage walking toward us with a strong step. My grandma said with excitement: “Taotao, call him daddy quickly. Your daddy comes back.” As we looked at each other, I collided with you on a spiritual level and knew that you are my father. We smiled at each other. Without stopping, you walked straightly into the house.
You always taught me that God created the heavens, earth, and everything, and supplies our need. Everything we have is from God. It is heaven’s law and earth’s principle to believe in and worship God. Only by listening to God’s words can we gain His care and protection.
In addition, you often told me not to say anything about faith in God in school. At that moment, I didn’t know the reason, but afterward, I understood. “The whole world lies in wickedness” (1 John 5:19). We live in the country that is under the control of the atheistic government. The government doesn’t allow people to believe in God and to walk the right path. They want to arrest and imprison all those people who believe in God. At the same time, I knew that your going to a faraway place before, as spoken of by Mom, was in fact that you were persecuted, arrested and thrown into prison by the CCP because of faith in God and following the correct path. That place was ghastly and horrible. Once you were arrested again, you would leave my mother and me, and they would still use all kinds of cruel methods to torture and abuse you. So, I kept my mouth shut on belief in God.
Although I seldom met you for you always ran around preaching the gospel of God, I knew what you did were righteous things. Your purpose was to bring more people who lived in the midst of sin back to God’s family and to make them have a chance to be saved.
However, the atheistic Communist government still didn’t let us off. During the days when the CCP persecuted Christians increasingly severely, I could feel a gust of biting wind even in the summer nights. The CCP police, like tigers or wolves baring their sharp teeth, constantly spied upon us. I remembered the last time you just left home and then the police arrived. They threatened my mother and me, and turned our house into a complete mess. Because they failed to find you, they had to return crestfallen.
But, with the same expectation, we prayed and waited resolutely.
Gradually, I grew up. In that twelfth lunar month, I formally returned to the embrace of God. Brothers and sisters were happy for me and shed tears of excitement.
I hungrily read God’s word piece after piece, which touched my heart. Reading His words of consolation, I was extremely happy; reading the words of judgment, I felt pain and shed tears; reading the words of blessing, I felt unworthy. … From God’s words, I saw the light and found the true direction of life, and I also understood why you made up your mind not to yield to it under the cruel persecution of the CCP government. I was willing to pursue to be someone who yearns for the light and justice and to live out a meaningful life.
The winter is indeed cold, but it cannot stop the coming of spring. Under these terrible conditions, brothers and sisters persist in spreading the gospel of God and bearing witness for God. Now, God’s gospel has long since spread to thousands of households and expanded in such a country that regards God as its enemy. Just as God said: “We trust that no country or power can stand in the way of what God wishes to achieve.”
How time flies! In a flash, thirteen years have flown by.
The clouds drifting in the sky, the light wind kisses my cheek. Everything in the spring is so beautiful. The grass broke from the ground and is striving to grow taller; the flowers are vying to be the most beautiful; and the birds are fluttering their wings and singing cheerfully in the willows…. All things are offering a part of themselves in order to testify to the glory of the Lord of creation.
Dad, if it had not been for God’s care and protection, we couldn’t have been able to continue on this bright path. Watered and fed by God’s words and burdened with the commission of God, I have also stepped onto the path of spreading the gospel. No matter what persecution and tribulations I might encounter, I am resolved to follow God and dedicate my entire life to Him.
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