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more I shared, the crazier they thought I was! Mother said, “The day hasn’t
dawned yet and no one has come to our house. The door is firmly locked.”

My father held me tightly. With tears in his eyes he cried to God, “Dear Lord,
have mercy on my son. Please don’t let him lose his mind. Please give my son
a Bible!”

My mother, father and I knelt down and wept together, arm in arm.

Suddenly I heard a faint knock at the door. A very gentle voice called my
name. I rushed over and asked through the locked door, “Are you bringing
the bread to me?” The gentle voice replied, “Yes, we have a feast of bread to
give you.” I immediately recognized the voice as the same one I had heard in
the vision.

I quickly opened the door and there standing before me were the same two
servants I had seen in the vision. One man held a red bag in his hand. My
heart raced as I opened the bag and held in my hands my very own Bible!

The two men quickly departed into the still darkness.

I clutched my new Bible to my heart and fell down on my knees outside the
door. I thanked God again and again! I promised Jesus from that moment
on I would devour the Word like a hungry child.

The old man in the dream represented God. He saw in this young Chinese
Christian an intense hunger for some spiritual food to eat. He was therefore
pleased to give him what he desperately longed for.

Brother Yun goes on to share how he found out the identity of the two men
some time later. An evangelist in a town far away had a vision three months
earlier in which he saw Yun, his house and village. In the vision the evangelist
knew he was to give Yun a Bible he kept buried in a can in the ground.
Although he had seen the vision clearly, he did not act on it until three months
later when he spoke to the two men, told them of the vision, and asked them
to deliver the Bible.

This account is remarkable for a number of reasons. As one contrasts the
desire of this young Chinese boy to read a Bible, the apathy of “Christians” in
Western nations who have ready access to the Scriptures is very apparent.