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Walking In the Valley Of The Shadow Of Death - Part 4
Yesterday, we shared about Yong Sook’s arrest and imprisonment. Today, we continue.
To Yong Sook’s surprise the authorities
decided to release her and her son. Her husband had already died of
starvation in prison. The day that she and her younger son walked out of
the prison together she weighed only 50 pounds. Now constantly on the
run, weak but resilient, they wanted desperately to live.
Yong Sook discovered that her older son was
in China, and that her daughter had been sold into marriage to a man in
China when she tried to cross the river on her own. Feeling incomplete,
Yong Sook desperately tried to find them.
She and her younger son were finally
reunited with her son in China and, to her surprise, he was enrolled in a
Bible school. He warmly welcomed them into his home… and his life with
Christ. This was the first time Yong Sook had ever walked into a church,
and the first time she felt safe. “Grace came over me. I closed my eyes
and had an image of myself crying.” Careful not to reveal her identity
as she did not want anyone to know she was a defector, she held back
tears.
Standing frozen until her jaws hurt from the
tension a woman gently approached her. “God really loves you,” the
woman told her. Yong Sook did not believe it. But God refused to let her
go. After almost 40 years of running, hiding, sorrow and hardships she
felt herself surrender to Him. Recalling many stores from the Bible that
her grandfather used to tell she cried out, “Grandfather had been right
all along.”
From that day on, God’s provision and
protection was working in her life. A South Korean broker in China
arranged safe passage for her whole family. Travelling through Laos and
Thailand, the family sought asylum at the South Korean embassy in
Thailand. “God is so faithful. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the
beginning and the end. My life testifies it. Thanks to the prayers of my
grandfather before he died and my prayers in prison, I am in South
Korea. God brought me here.”
One With Them
The 200,000 – 400,000 secret North Korean Christians are in desperate need of our prayer, especially those who have been sent to a remote area, prison or labor camp. Each one of them has their own story. Yong Sook was saved from prison for the glory of God; others die for the glory of God. Let’s be One With Them in this prayer today:
Our Heavenly Father, thank You for who
You are. You are who You say You are and You will do what You say You
will do. We praise You and love You. We thank You for the gift of Your
Son, for making a way that we could reconcile with You. Thank You, God,
for saving us. Father, we come to Your Throne right now on behalf of
Yong Sook, her family, and all the believers suffering in North Korea.
You know each of them by name. You have counted the hairs on each of
their heads. You are collecting their tears in Your bottle. We know You
love them more than anyone else. Father, we don’t know what You will do
through Your precious children to glorify Your Name. But we do know what
You will do in them, and that’s to conform them to the image of Jesus.
Father, we pray Your Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. We pray
for peace that is beyond understanding for all Your children. And we
pray in the Name above all names, the King above all kings, the Lord
above all lords, Your Precious Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
2013.06.30
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Walking In the Valley Of The Shadow Of Death - Part 4
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