Page 73 - Living Epistles

Many Western believers have Bibles throughout their homes, but they will
easily go a hundred days without ever picking one up and reading it. There is
no hunger to read the divine message Yahweh has sent to His people. The
Scriptures are treated as something common, and the attention shown to them
reveals that the words of God are not treasured as they ought to be. The people
of God are sated as they gorge themselves on things that appeal to the soul and
the flesh. They spend their time before the television, listening to music,
reading novels, and all manner of other foods that do not help them
spiritually. All the while they lack a true hunger for the Word of God.

The attitude manifested by Brother Yun at this tender age should be the
normal response of all who come to Christ and then discover that God has
caused a book of tremendous spiritual wisdom and revelation to be written for
the instruction of His people. It should be normal to find Christians of all ages
pouring over the Scriptures to glean some insight into the Kingdom of God.

Brother Yun would later marry a Chinese woman who also came to Christ in
her teen years. Deling relates how she would walk long distances, often in the
dark and through dangerous areas, alone as a teenage girl in order to attend
meetings of believers. Her hunger for fellowship and spiritual teaching was
similar in this aspect to that of the man who would one day be her husband.
She relates the following experience in her own words.

At the age of 18 I committed my life to Jesus Christ.

The very first night as a believer I was taken to my first house church
meeting. The Public Security Bureau came and we all had to escape on foot
through the darkness. This was my very first introduction to what it would
be like following the Lord!...

Two other young women came to the Lord at the same time as me. We
attended meetings together. These were in different parts of the district so we
often had to walk more than an hour to get there. After the meetings I often
had to walk home by myself. This was quite dangerous because it was so
dark and there were evil men and wild dogs out late at night.

God worked a great miracle to protect and help me in those early days.
Many nights as I walked home I could see a light about ten meters ahead of
me on the path, as if someone was carrying a lamp, showing me the way I
needed to take. In the pitch dark I often lost my way, but then I’d see the