| Sorrow Into Joy |
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30:5 For his anger is but for a moment; His favor is for a life-time: Weeping may tarry for the night, But joy `cometh' in the morning.
That night I went ahead to work and while working the Lord spoke to me and said, "I came to your mother this morning and asked her, 'My daughter, are you ready to come home to Me?' She looked up at Me and then looked around me to peek into Heaven and then looked back into My face and smiled and said, 'Oh yes Jesus.' Then she leaped into My arms. And you ought to see dancing around this place now." This eased my pain and helped restore some of my joy, but my greatest joy was yet to be realized.
My wife, whom I love more than anything in this world, was up to this point unsaved. Being from Taiwan she veiwed Christianity as an American thing and really didn't apply to her or to Asian culture. My mother loved my wife dearlly and aways prayed for her salvation as did I. At the funeral she began to see Christianity in action as members of my church family made the trip to Indiana to lend support and comfort to my brothers and me. She saw the love of christ also in my cousins who are strong Spirit filled Christians. And what she could understand of my pastor's sermon touched her heart. The next night before we went to bed she asked me to "preach" to her. I had gotten her an English/Chinese parallel Bible and read to her in english and then let her read the same verses in chinese. I had tried to do this before but it was the love of God shown by my christian brothers and sisters in our time of crisis that melted her heart. That night she prayed with me to receive Jesus. That night my sorrow was turned into joy. |
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