遇見.攝理的秋日 Autumn Serenity — Journeying in Providence

Lately, after early morning services, Pastor Yan has been gradually sharing testimonies from the 316 gathering at Wolmyeongdong. One part deeply moved my heart. Pastor Yan shared: “When SSN looked back at this history, he truly felt that it was because we were being chased that things progressed more rapidly. Some people didn’t even have time to put on shoes—they walked a thousand miles barefoot.” If we had not been chased, we would’ve just slept instead of traveling a thousand miles. In the past, the Israelites reorganized and were trained during their 40 years in the wilderness before entering Canaan. In the Roman era, Christians were persecuted for 400 years before Christianity became the state religion. God unfolded His will through tribulation. While SSN was delivering God's Word, he was constantly slandered. 80% of Providence's history has been storms and hardships, but it was precisely during such trials that Wolmyeongdong was completely built. It was always snowing or r...