Goodness and Lovingkindness Will Follow Me All The Days of My Life (#4)

Amazing grace

The only true God Yahweh is full of grace and compassion, and knows my heart. He knows that I didn’t under­stand these two issues, and that this had led me to say those blasphemous words. But He didn’t punish me. On the contrary He let me experience ever more deeply His grace and love. From the beginning of the year 1983, I had experienced five wonderful incidents.

Goodness and Lovingkindness Will Follow Me All The Days of My Life (#3)

From the Hong Kong refugee camp soaring up into the sky and flying towards Canada

The Hong Kong police put us in an old military camp, the so-called “closed refugee camp” which was guarded by policemen as if it were a prison, since we were not allowed to go out. Living in the “closed refugee camp” were many refugees who had arrived earlier than we. They told us that after staying here for some time, refugees would be transferred to the “open camp” where they would finally be free to go out. Therefore we must never do anything that may annoy the police, and must obey their regul­at­ions if we wish to be transferred. The people from our two boats were put in different rooms. At day time, all the refugees would come to the public square to chat. Everyone’s heart was heavy because we didn’t know what the future held for us.

Goodness and Lovingkindness Will Follow Me All The Days of My Life (#2)

My sister got married shortly after the liberation of South Vietnam. All along her husband had been looking for a way to escape out of Vietnam, but the cost of escaping by boat to Thailand or Malaysia was too high, and he couldn’t afford it. When he found out that my uncle wanted me to go to Guangzhou, he came up with an idea: Take the train from Saigon to Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam, and from there find ways to cross the border into China. The price for a train ticket from Saigon to Hanoi was relatively low, and my brother-in-law knew some Chinese Vietnamese who were living in North Vietnam and would often cross the border into China to buy goods to bring back to Vietnam. So they were very familiar with the roads in that area. My brother-in-law knew that he only had to pay these Chinese Vietnamese a small sum of money, and they would be willing to lead us into China. He was planning to use this way to escape out of Vietnam because the cost was very low.

Goodness and Lovingkindness Will Follow Me All The Days of My Life (#1)

My family background

My Chinese name is Zhou Hui Xian. I was born in the city of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) of South Vietnam. My parents were Chinese from the southern Chinese province of Guang­dong. They moved from Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong, to South Vietnam during the Japanese invasion of China. At that time they thought that they would stay temporarily in Vietnam for a few years, and that once the war was over they can re­turn to Guangzhou. But soon afterwards, Vietnam too was captured by the Japanese, which made it very difficult for the people in Vietnam to make a living. By the time the war was over, my parents were impoverished, and couldn’t afford the ship fare to go back to China. They were stranded in South Vietnam, yet they held on to the hope that one day, after saving enough money, they could go back home.

Testifying to God’s Unfailing Love

Foreword

My purpose in writing this testimony is to proclaim the lovingkindness, the righteousness, and the holiness of the only true God Yahweh. Long before I had come to know Him, He had already rescued me again and again from extremely dangerous situations. He had led me, step by step, to cross rivers and oceans, to go over land, to walk through the wilderness, and finally to enter the Promised Land. I believe that the following verses in the Psalms are the only verses that can adequately describe the experiences I have gone through in walking with Father God all these years: