5. God Makes A Way Through The Sea

                I had not communicated with Aunt Du since we had met in Hong Kong.  This was because I was afraid of getting into trouble if I contacted people abroad.  Occasionally when some of my co-workers went abroad I would give them Aunt Du’s address in case they could contact her.  Aunt Du usually worked between Singapore and Taiwan, and seldom came to America.

            I later learned that about the time I arrived in New York, she was very sick in Singapore and soon rested in the Lord.  Before she passed away she had entrusted all her life savings with her niece who lived in America.  She had asked her niece to use this for the work of Home of Grace for Christ’s Workers.  So unexpectedly I received a letter from her niece, Sister Lu, inviting me to meet her in Baltimore where she now lived.  I hesitated to go because I did not know whether she had a vision or burden for the work of Home of Grace.  Also, many people disagreed with the Comparative Method of Bible Study and criticized the “48 cities of refuge” as a dream of ambition.  I wondered how Sister Lu and her husband thought about it.  As we talked on the phone I asked Sister Lu,  “Do you use the Comparative Method of Bible Study to read the Bible every day?”  She told me that she had been using that method to read the Bible since she was 12 years old because of her aunt.  She hoped that I could come to Baltimore to meet her when her husband came back from Taiwan.  Immediately I took a handbag and left New York.  I planned first to visit Mrs. Lo in Wilmington.  She was an old acquaintance of my mother when they were in Hong Kong.  I would spend a few days with her in her senior apartment, and then I would go to Baltimore.  I expected to return to New York in two weeks.

            I realized that one must awake from idleness to focus on seeking God’s will.  Then there would be guidance of the Holy Spirit and a change in environment.  The Lord truly made a way through the seas, a path through the mighty waters.  If it had not been the Lord’s mercy to awake me, I would have indulged in worldly leisure.  How, then, could I have moved on in grace?