诗篇31:15上 “我众生的事在你的手中……”（和合本）
诗篇31:15上 “我的一生都在你的手中……”（圣经新译本）

Harbin is known as the Oriental Pearl and the “Little Paris of the East.” The “Harbin Enveloped in Darkness” narrated by Wang Gang accompanied me during my childhood. Although I knew nothing about the content of this radio drama, its title left me with endless memories and imagination.
I left my home in Hegang for the first time in 1997 to take the entrance exam for Nanjing Union Theological Seminary (hereinafter referred to as NUTS ), which brought me to the Capital City Harbin of my province Heilongjiang. I took the train from Hegang to Harbin at around 9 pm and arrived at the station at around 5 am. When the train slowly pulled into the platform of Harbin Station, the announcer spoke in the purest Mandarin: “Dear passengers, Harbin Railway Station is coming soon. Please pack your luggage and prepare to get off. Harbin is a world-famous city. Every year, the Harbin Ice and Snow World, St. Sophia Cathedral… fried popsicles, Harbin red sausage, etc. are all fascinating… I wish you a pleasant journey! Welcome to take this train next time.”
The exam location that year was set up at the Nangang Christian Church. The result of the exam was that I received a “notification of non-admission” one month later. The most memorable thing about that time was that there were 7-8 candidates who took the exam together. At that time, there were three churches on Nangang Street. One was a Protestant church – the Christianity we believed in, where the largest number of people gathered. There were several worship services every Sunday, and everyone had to line up to find a seat. Next to it was an Orthodox church – there were very few people, and most of the believers were Chinese and Russian mixed race. We were very interested in learning about it at the time and wanted to go to that church to find someone to communicate with and learn related knowledge. At that time, I met a pastor’s wife. Her attitude was very unfriendly, and she said: “If you want to find a church, you can go to the Catholic Church across the street. There are priests and nuns there.” It seems that although they have luxurious buildings on the outside, they have no heart to spread the gospel. No wonder they ended up being reduced to tourist attractions. Then, that afternoon, several of us went to the Catholic Church across the street, met priests and nuns for the first time, and attended their mass. Everything was new and we were moved by the fact that priests never married and nuns devoted themselves to the Lord and served Him wholeheartedly. After the exam, several students went to the Harbin Night Market and talked about everyone’s expectations and hopes for the future under the streetlights.
In 1998, I came to Harbin again to take the entrance exam for NUTS. This time, we did not take the exam in the city center, but in Wanbao Town, which was far away from the city center, because at that time there was a provincial-level Bible school in Wanbao Town. It seemed that it took about 3 hours to get there after two reverses. During that exam, I was under great pressure and prayed to God, “Lord, if I fail to pass the exam in Nanjing this year, I will never take the exam for this Seminary again (it is regarded as the highest official Christian institution in China). I may just go to a local Bible school or Northeast Theological Seminary (located in Shenyang)…” The night before the exam, at the school’s evening prayer meeting, there was a female classmate who was also a candidate. She prayed, “It does not, therefore, depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.” As a result, the exam went surprisingly smoothly. The content I reviewed before the exam appeared in the exam. It was amazing! After the exam, a sister who worked in the kitchen saw me and said to me, “Brother, you can pass the exam. I see that you have been praying all the time.” After the exam, I took the train back to Hegang at 10:00 pm. I could not hold my tears all the way and thanked God in my heart. I knew there was a very clear voice inside saying, “You are leaving Heilongjiang. This year I will take you to Nanjing.” At the end of August that year, I came to Harbin again and met up with another classmate. We took the train southward and headed to NUTS to study.
After that, during the 7 years I studied in Nanjing, I changed trains in Harbin at least 8-9 times. Every time, we passed by each other and left in a hurry. When I packed my bags and left my hometown in Hegang in 1998, there was a voice in my heart saying, “One day, I will take you to a very, very far away place that you have never been to and don’t know where it is.” Because of the call of that more distant voice, I never included Harbin in my life plan. However, things did not go as I wished. In 2005, the year I graduated from NUTS with a master’s degree, the place I least wanted to go was Harbin. However, we must be careful, perhaps the thing you least want to do is often the thing God wants you to do the most. Although I had many struggles in choosing the future field of service before graduation, I also tried to go to the south to see if I should serve there. However, when I was sitting in a church in the south of China to worship, I couldn’t stop my tears. The Holy Spirit rebuked me in my heart, saying, “Are you not going back to Harbin because of material supply? Go back, the students there are waiting for you.” With helplessness, reluctance, and a longing for the big city, I came to Harbin again in July 2005. After nearly 3 hours, I arrived at Heilongjiang Bible School to prepare to be a theology teacher. The three years at Wanbao Town were three years of learning humility, three years of traning character, and three years like Moses in the wilderness of Midian and David escaping from King Saul’s pursuit. The three years I disliked the most were the best three years of my life. The place I least wanted to go was a place full of spiritual gold. When I walked under the street lights at Wanbao Town, I thought: “Darkness gave me black eyes, but I use them to look for light.” When I left, I said: “I left quietly, just as I came quietly. I won’t take away a cloud…”
Are there anything in this city that I should miss? Of course there are. I have experienced countless graces from the Lord at Wanbao Town of this city. The care and love of many elders and brothers and sisters, the growth and development of students, and the encouragement and prayers of classmates are all treasures in my heart. In Harbin, I met a brother in the Lord and his mother who had welcomed me in his home for a semester without any compensation. However, because I was preparing for the TOEFL test, I was only thinking about memorizing English words and never paid attention to the charm of Harbin under the neon lights. There, I met a missionary couple who eventually became my recommenders for applying to American university. There, we participated in an English fellowship at a Nangang church. A scene that happened in Harbin Swan Hotel in the summer of 2017 is still fresh in my memory. At that time, pastors and coworkers from five provinces attended a theological seminar. On the last day of the meeting, a pastor from Shenyang took me to the swimming pool to learn how to swim. I started at the edge of the one-meter-deep pool, and when I slowly left the edge of the pool and walked to the middle, I accidentally fell into the deep water. At that moment, terror struck me and I struggled in the water. I recalled the scene in the novel “The Thorn Birds” where a young priest named Dane drowned in the water. At the same time, I imagined that if I died at this time, my mother, my family, and my students would be extremely sad. Therefore, I struggled desperately in the water. Suddenly I felt as if a pair of hands pulled me back to the shore. Only then did the lifeguard extend a life-saving pole to me. Everyone on the shore was worried about me. The pastor and I returned to the hotel and we offered a prayer of thanksgiving to God together. Although I did not learn to swim, I learned a deeper lesson: “Death is so close to me; everyone should cherish life.”
In October 2013, I returned to China for the first time and passed by this city again. I was filled with emotion. Harbin, I owe you a lot. Although I lived at Wanbao Town there for three years, I never had the opportunity to see the Harbin Ice and Snow World. Harbin, I never stopped to appreciate your elegant and classical beauty, nor did I really open my arms to embrace you. Harbin, this city that haunts my soul, you are my friend in life, but I never belong to you, and you don’t belong to me either. However, in every bit of my life journey, I can find memories in you, and I can also chase the clues of God’s invisible hand through you.

 魏师母
 

我最近听了一篇关于以上这些圣经经文的讲道。我想和大家分享一下那篇讲道的牧师的一些想法。牧师在讲道开始时说：“控制愤怒是一个问题。” 这似乎已成为当今世界的一个大问题。我们看到更多的暴力，更多的愤怒和更多的仇恨。当然，我们所有人有时都会生气。但作为基督徒，我们需要控制我们对愤怒的反应方式。今天，我想更多地谈谈如何回应那些向我们发泄愤怒的人，以及这种愤怒如何让我们震惊和受伤，尤其是当这种愤怒来自我们的弟兄姐妹时。我们需要节制和饶恕来处理针对我们的愤怒以及我们自己有时感受到的愤怒，我们需要圣灵的帮助来应对这些情况。
当我们看雅各的话时，我们看到他在强调一个观点，亲爱的兄弟们，“这是你们所知道的”（雅1: 19-20）：“注意这一点”，“永远不要忘记”，“理解这一点”……” 要快快的听”，多听是最好的。换句话说，如果我们能花点时间从仇恨的苛刻话语或伤害性行为中恢复过来，只是思考一下。然后雅各说，“慢慢的说”，“慢慢的动怒， ” “慢慢的动怒”。我们需要在听觉上有属灵的理解力（深入倾听）！这需要迅速服从上帝的圣灵。我们必须每天充满圣灵，为这些时刻做好准备。有时很难知道如何回应，因为我们被愤怒吓到了。大多数时候，它让我们措手不及。显然，在那一刻表现出愤怒的人正在对我们犯罪。让我们小心，不要得罪他们。认真、深入地倾听总会带来更好的结果。
现在我们来看看雅各在第 20 节中还想提醒我们什么，“因为人的怒气不能成就神所的义。”换句话说，愤怒并不能使我们变得善良，而神要求我们必须善良。听听我读到的关于雅各的这些指示，仅仅知道甚至选择正确的行动是不够的：我们必须采取行动。神不寻求正义的知识，他寻求正义的生活！我们知道没有行为的信心不能称为信心。信心不仅仅是言语；它不仅仅是知识；它通过顺服来体现。信心使我们脱离世界并顺服神。信心使我们有能力抵抗魔鬼并谦卑地接近神。雅各向我们展示了相信正确的事情却过着错误的生活是可能的。雅各在处理这个敏感话题上对弟兄们非常友善，但他给出了具体的实际指导来帮助我们过上真正的基督徒生活。雅各是耶稣同母的兄弟，但他却自称自己是 “神和主耶稣基督的仆人”。我们也是这样的人。我们面临的挑战是与人们协调恩典和真理，并表现出基督般的行为。因此，我们的目标是在展现恩典的同时展现真理。我们捍卫正义，同时也展现耶稣基督的爱。耶稣在世时面对过许多愤怒的人。他没有变得暴力或粗心大意。但他也不是一个软弱的人（。他不让人欺负他）他直面敌人。但耶稣不是用刀剑、匕首、威胁或侮辱来对抗，而是用恩典和真理的有力结合来对抗敌人。
我们仰望耶稣，因为他比任何人都更了解愤怒，也知道如何应对批评或虐待。耶稣处理难相处的人的一些方法如下：
1. 耶稣问问题。还记得路加福音第 12 章中的故事吗？当时耶稣被要求解决一个关于遗产的家庭纠纷，他回答说：“谁立我作你们断事的官？”“要谨慎！要防备一切贪心；人的生命不在乎家道丰富。”耶稣想让他们明白，把物质的东西置于个人关系之上会带来不好的后果。耶稣用问题来强调他对他人的开放态度。
2. 耶稣做的另一件事是，耶稣从未感到被逼入绝境。当法利赛人指责他做某些事情违反安息日时，耶稣并不担心他们会怎么看他。那不是他的重点。有时人们会用他们的判断逼迫我们，我们觉得他们误解了我们或不了解我们。但像耶稣一样，我们不必被别人的猜测所定义。我们的身份存在于上帝，而不是别人试图强加给我们的东西。
3. 耶稣知道何时该忽视。记得在《路加福音》第 4 章中，当耶稣回到家乡拿撒勒时，他在会堂里读经文时说：“没有先知在自己的家乡被人悦纳的。”他讲了以利亚和寡妇的故事。会堂里的所有人都对耶稣感到愤怒。他们把他赶出城外，想把他扔下悬崖。耶稣知道没有办法和这些人讲理，所以他直接穿过人群，“继续上路”。有些人会发脾气，辱骂和粗鲁……在当今现代的网络上或短信中，这种情况屡见不鲜。这是离开的时候了。有时人们是不讲道理的，所以你别无选择。当面质问时，你也许可以选择另一种方式。
4. 耶稣没有采取防御措施。在马可福音第 10 章中，我们看到雅各和约翰的请求。“夫子，我们无论求什么，愿你给我们成就。”耶稣说，你们要我做什么？他们要求在荣耀中坐在耶稣的左右手边。他们越界了。耶稣知道什么时候说不，什么时候说是，并且不担心让人们不高兴。有时人们对我们的要求超出了我们所能给予的。他们可能会试图让我们感到内疚。耶稣爱所有的人，但他的目标不是取悦所有人。耶稣的目标是遵行天父的旨意。上帝对耶稣的旨意给了他安全感。他不必竭尽全力去满足有需要或咄咄逼人的人。这是耶稣与他人打交道的另一种方式。
5. 耶稣很灵活。马太福音第 15 章讲述了一个迦南妇人的信心故事。这个妇人恳求耶稣医治她的女儿。耶稣说： “不。”但后来他被她的信心感动，治愈了她的女儿。耶稣以开放的心态对待人们。当一个难相处的人来找我们时，我们可能会想，哦，不，不会再来了。但也许我们最好保持开放的心态。这次情况可能会有所不同。我们不想拒绝圣灵在我们自己或他人生活中的工作。
朋友们，我们将耶稣视为我们完美的榜样，像他那样处理生活中的棘手问题和所有其他问题。像他一样，我们也会生气，也会对罪恶、虚伪和不公感到憎恨。这被称为正义的愤怒，这是可以接受的。耶稣没有表现出人的愤怒，而是表现出上帝的义愤。我们视耶稣为榜样，但我们很软弱，有时会失败。我们必须祈祷、宽恕，并继续努力在控制愤怒方面做得更好。

（魏师母于2024年9月19日早上5点晨祷分享）

HOW JESUS DEALT WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE

        群富弟兄和羽凡姐妹这对基督徒夫妇是我们在奥克拉荷马时教会的同工。尽管我们在不同的时间都离开了那座城市，但在主里还常保持联系，彼此劝勉并互相代祷。提到群富，我马上会联想到至少三件事：
第一，“忠诚的五个人”（ “Faithful Five”）之一。据群富分享，他2008年在中国上大学期间信主后，在没有特殊情况下他每次团契和敬拜都必须参加，从不缺席，无论学业多么繁忙。当时团契里有五个固定参加的弟兄姐妹，“忠诚的五个人”之一由此得名。他坚持不懈的聚会鼓励了许多人。
第二，群富2010年在塞米诺尔州立大学（Seminole State College）毕业后于2012年到奥克拉荷马城市大学（Oklahoma City University）就读。他主动找到教会。我开车送他回去的路上聊天时，我和他说了一句话：“你毕业的那所大学也许就是你将来工作的地方。”结果，他毕业后的第一份工作就是在塞米诺尔州立大学教书。这是神奇妙的预备和带领。
第三，群富在2014年研究生毕业后，已经到了谈婚论嫁的时候，但他还没有找女朋友。当时教会组织人去参加在德州举行明日之光营会（the Pioneers Conference in Texas）。报名的最后一天，我鼓励他去参加，并随口和他说：“你也许会在营会上遇到自己的终身伴侣”。神使万事都互相效力。事实上，就是在那个营会上他遇见了羽凡，并且后来迈进了婚姻的殿堂。
两周前莎莎和我说，群富和羽凡有宝宝了。我听到这个消息后非常兴奋，第二天就和群富通了电话，恭喜他们喜得千金。在电话中群富让我去看他的脸书。在2024年6月24日，群富在脸书上分享到：
“在新生儿送礼会上，许多新父母选择举办性别揭晓派对，但我们决定做些不同的事情，举办名字揭晓派对。对于那些还不知道的人，我宣布我们将有一个女孩！爸爸的女儿！多年来，我一直想要一个女儿。中国人有一句俗语：‘女儿是爸爸的小棉袄’。这个俗语传达了女儿为父亲提供温暖、舒适和亲密的感觉，就像棉袄在寒冷的天气里提供温暖一样。多年来，我从未考虑过要一个男孩，直到几个月前 Shell 怀孕了。我们最初以为是个男孩，所以我们不得不想出一个男孩的名字以防万一。然而，我们早就决定了一个女孩的名字了。
我和 Shell 于 2015 年 10 月结婚，大约九年前。我们家的墙上一直挂着一份祷告清单，上面列出了大约 7-10 个祷告请求。我们每年更新两到三次。自从我们在 2016 年开始列出这份祷告清单以来，我们一直祈祷上帝赐予我们孩子。从 2017 年开始，生孩子的请求一直排在清单的首位。上帝是信实的！除了这个最上面的请求外，清单上的大部分祷告请求都已实现。多年来，你可以想象，有许多沮丧、失望、怀疑和质疑上帝的时刻。我在祷告中经常问上帝：‘你什么时候给我们一个孩子？我会有孩子吗？’多年来，我在教堂听到过一些夫妇经过多年的祈祷终于有孩子的见证。我总是想知道我什么时候有机会与大家分享类似的见证。上帝再次听到了我们的祷告！直到去年 11 月，我们得知 Shell 怀孕了。我忍不住哭了，百感交集。下班回家的路上，我一遍又一遍地听着‘神真美好’这首歌，歌词是：‘神真美好，神真真好。你对我真好。’
2017 年的一个星期天早上，我们的牧师讲的是耶稣在圣经中谈到的‘丰盛生命’。他向我们介绍了希腊语 ‘Zoe’，意思是生命。它指的是来自上帝的神圣、永恒的生命。在约翰福音 10:10 中，耶稣说：‘我来了，是要叫人得生命，并且得的更丰盛。’这强调了与上帝的关系中丰富而充实的生命。那一刻，我和Shell互相看着对方，知道我们彼此在想什么。礼拜结束后，在回家的路上，我们决定给我们未来的女儿取名为 Zoe，尽管我们甚至不知道什么时候会生孩子。我们知道上帝是生命的创造者，我们希望女儿能因信耶稣基督和与神的关系而拥有‘丰盛的生命’。话虽如此，我们的女儿名叫 Zoe Grace Cheng。Grace （恩典）是中间名。所以它的意思是，因着神的恩典，祂赐给我们丰盛的生命……
14 年前，也就是 2010 年，我独自一人带着一个随身行李和一个行李箱来到美国，当时还是一名留学生。对于那些不了解我背景的人我想介绍一下：我在中国的一个农村长大。我妈妈只读了一年小学，我爸爸初中毕业。由于他们受教育程度有限，只能做体力活，收入很少。自从我在 2008 年成为基督徒以来，上帝彻底改变了我的生命。在美国的 14 年里，上帝一次又一次地实现了祂对我的应许。祂引导我完成了三个大学学位，提供工作，赐予我妻子和家庭，以及周围拥有很多朋友和教会弟兄姐妹，现在还有一个小女儿 Zoe。我的杯中满溢着祝福。我别无所求。我们俩都受到了朋友们的祝福和爱戴！
2010 年 8 月，在我来美国的前一天晚上，教会的弟兄姐妹为我举行了欢送会。他们给了我一本崭新的圣经，里面有许多来自兄弟姐妹的信息。其中一节是耶利米书 29:11‘耶和华说：我知道我向你们所怀的意念是赐平安的意念，不是降灾祸的意念，要叫你们末后有指望’。这已成为我人生的箴言。每当面对生活的挑战、困难和危机时，我总是记得上帝对我的承诺”。
8月13日早8: 13时Zoe Grace Cheng 平安来到世界。在她出生的那个时刻，群富感动不已，泪流满面。小宝宝非常可爱，她穿的衬衫上写着：“我是上帝应允祷告的明证”（I Am Proof that God Answers Prayers）。 上帝是听祷告的上帝。小Zoe的见证提醒我们，要祷告，祷告，再祷告，到了时候上帝终必成就祂的美意。我们同心祈祷，愿主赐福小Zoe健康成长，尽早认识主，得着永恒的生命；也愿主赐给群富和羽凡智慧、力量和恩惠，使他们在为人父母的过程中生命更加丰盛，将更多荣耀归于父神！

Zoe

魏师母

         我们今天读到一些关于耶稣哭泣的经文！眼泪让我感动不已，但耶稣的眼泪和那意味着什么更让我感动！我们知道耶稣为我们做了什么，我们已经相信了，并且非常感激，我们想每天为衪而活，并与所有愿意倾听的人分享耶稣的好消息，特别是我们的家人！在路加福音 19:41-42 中，耶稣在被钉十字架前一周的棕榈主日进入耶路撒冷。当衪接近耶路撒冷时，衪看到了这座城市，我们读到耶稣为这座城市哭泣。耶稣感到悲伤，因为衪的人民没有认出衪到底是谁，错过了获得永恒和平的机会。他们对真理视而不见。罪的本质是盲目和无知。人们仍然对真理视而不见。

九岁那年，我深刻认识到自己的罪，持续了三天。我很难过，但我没有告诉任何人，因为我不明白。我认为，我深刻认识到自己的罪，持续了三天，这很重要。当时，我们教会正在举行一次复兴会，牧师每晚都在宣讲福音。我母亲注意到，那几天我非常安静，心烦意乱。我睡得不好，事实上，我非常害怕自己会死，不能上天堂。我母亲和我谈了谈，带我去拜访牧师。一天晚上，在复兴会唱诗时，牧师问是否有人愿意来邀请耶稣进入他们的心中。我很紧张，但我再也等不及了……我走下去握住牧师的手，告诉他我想相信耶稣。那天晚上我哭了很多……我的眼泪是我对罪的悲伤，当我对耶稣说“是”时，我立刻感受到了一生中最美妙的平安。我仍然清楚地记得那一刻。这是我第一次体验到“出人意外的平安”。我知道耶稣原谅了我，我接受了耶稣进入我的生命。我为罪而流下的悲伤泪水变成了我得救的喜悦泪水！

        还有一次我想分享我流下的泪水，这对我来说非常有意义。我们在台湾待了大约 2 年，我父亲因癌症去世。这是我第一次经历如此巨大的损失，失去了一个我非常亲近的人。我无法回到美国参加葬礼。我们的传教士朋友在家里举行了一场仪式来安慰我、魏牧师和我们的孩子。他们邀请了我们的中国教会朋友和牧师。那是清晨 5 点左右。当然，那天有很多眼泪。我预料到我会哭，我预料到我的传教士家人会哭，这让我感到安慰。但最让我感动的是我们的华人教会兄弟姐妹，他们来了，泪流满面，他们握着我的手，向我表达他们的悲痛。就好像他们认识我的父亲，但他们并不认识。看到他们的愛，对我来说是一种美妙的安慰。我们只在台湾呆了 2 年，但他们的愛是如此真实，给了我很大的安慰。

有时我们的眼泪是深深的悲伤，有时是巨大的压力和环境。有时我们的眼泪是别人哭泣时流下的。有时我们的眼泪是幸福的眼泪。我妈妈告诉我，在我决志接受耶稣作救主的那天晚上，我爸爸哭了。她还告诉我，爸爸在我结婚那天哭了。这些都是幸福的眼泪！我从未见过我爸爸流下那些眼泪。他非常注重隐私。但我很感谢我妈妈和我分享了爸爸的眼泪，因为这让我确信了他深深的愛。

眼泪可以表达愛！伟大的愛！当我们今天读到耶稣流泪的故事时，我们被上帝如此愛我们所感动。当我们受伤、感到沮丧、不知所措时，衪是我们可以信赖的上帝。当我们受苦时，我们可以让上帝的双臂环绕着我们，我们的眼泪落在衪的肩上。赞美主！当耶稣的好朋友拉撒路死后，我们在经文中看到“耶稣哭了”。这是圣经中最短的经文。只有两个字，却意义重大！当耶稣知道衪即将使拉撒路从死里复活时，衪为什么哭了？我认为衪哭泣是因为衪的朋友们很痛苦。我们可以理解马利亚和马大的感受，我们可以看到她们的痛苦和悲伤！“要是你在这里就好了……”马利亚说。也许衪流着泪说，“我很抱歉让你经历这些。”痛苦很快就会结束，这没关系。衪朋友的痛苦对衪来说很重要。耶稣和我们一样痛苦。即使衪知道好日子即将到来，衪今天也和我们一样痛苦。无论我们在哪里……在家里，在我们的书桌前，在我们的车里，在医院的病床旁，站在墓碑前。衪和我们一起哭泣。因为我们的痛苦是真实的。那就是愛。这是一位如此愛我们的上帝。无论我们经历什么，我们都可以信任衪！我们的造物主创造了我们，让我们用泪水温柔地表达情感，这难道不令人惊奇吗？我们的眼泪说出了无法言说的话！这是上帝赐予我们的另一份恩典。

当我们面对悲伤时，我们的注意力集中在什么地方？我是否专注于我认为上帝应该做不同的事情？还是我被衪多么深愛我以及衪与我同在的真理所锚定？上帝的眼泪提醒我们，上帝关心我们。衪记得每一个悲伤，每一滴眼泪。当大卫王经历黑暗时期时，他在诗篇56:8中说：“我几次流离，你都记数；求你把我的眼泪装在你的皮袋里”。有时我们不明白上帝的方式，衪允许的事情，但我们应该祈祷圣灵在我们心中留下最深的印象，上帝以永恒的愛愛我们。上帝从未打算让我们生活在一个充满战争、苦难和损失的破碎世界中。在拉撒路的故事中，我们被即将发生的事情以及耶稣将如何改变一切所吸引……我们可能会错过这个故事的中间部分。耶稣停下来与马利亚和马大一起哭泣。衪知道衪有能力解决这个问题。衪知道衪要做什么，但衪花时间站在马利亚和马大身边，和她们一起悲伤。衪与她们一起悲伤。衪也深愛着拉撒路。既然衪知道衪即将让拉撒路复活，衪的眼泪就一定不止于此。衪哭泣是因为衪周围的人非常伤心。有人说衪为这个世界的破碎而哭泣。也许衪为创造的堕落而哭泣，衪为死亡的伤心而哭泣。事情不应该是这样。我们只能想象耶稣的脑海中可能正在想这些。总有一天，耶稣会回来恢复一切。衪会擦去我们脸上的每一滴泪水。衪会让万物焕然一新。衪以永恒的愛愛我们，以慈愛吸引我们归向祂！阿们！赞美主！

(魏师母于2024年8月29日5:00 晨祷分享)

Tears

It is common to encounter squirrels on curvy rural roads. As you drive along you might suddenly notice something in the road ahead. It seems to be moving. Then you realize it’s a squirrel.

God gave this cute little rodent a lot of survival sense, but making a quick get-out-of-the-way decision for approaching vehicles seems not to be one of them! As the vehicle gets closer and closer, the squirrel scampers back and forth, trying to decide which way to run. By the time it makes up its mind, it is either safe between two tires of the vehicle or crushed beneath one of them. Ouch!

My wife had this kind of experience recently. The squirrel that she encountered was fortunate and escaped certain death under a tire. But will it be so fortunate next time?

This scenario is much like deciding whether to follow Christ. There is no escaping the oncoming judgement except to call upon the name of the Lord. But some people vacillate back and forth like the squirrel, putting off the decision for salvation time after time. This will get them nowhere but under the “tire” of God’s judgement someday – and then the decision will be made for them. In 2 Corinthians 6: 2 the Lord said, “Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” If God is calling you, and you have not made a decision for Christ, please don’t shrug it off as Agrippa did in Acts 26: 1-29. Those who fail to decide will not escape as the squirrels sometimes do.

Don Reid – Greeneville, TN

Whether you decide or don’t decide will be eternally decisive.

Cited from Day 25, Beside the Still Water(Sample Issue), Amish Devotion.

Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their works will follow them.”
Hebrews 11: 4 …Though he is dead, he still speaks through this faith.

Zhao Guiqin (January 1, 1960 – August 16, 2024) was born in Yongli Village, Xinhua Town, Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province. She was an old neighbor of my family. When I was a child, I could see the smoke coming out of her chimney when she was cooking. Zhao Guiqin was modest, and hospitable; she respected the elderly and loved the young. She always welcomed people with a smile. Men, women and children in the village like her very much. My peers of similar age affectionately call her “Second Sister.” Later, she was ordained as an elder because of her faithful service in the church. From then on, the brothers and sisters called her “Elder” or “Elder Zhao.” I remember that in 1992, Zhao showed me a handwritten testimony of faith. The basic content is as follows:

Zhao and her husband married and had two lovely children. When she was sick, one child was nursing while the other was just beginning to walk. She suffered from bone tuberculosis, femoral head necrosis, and anorexia. In order to cure her illness, she had to worship various idols, burn incense, and seek fortune-telling. Once the fortune teller Zhao Xiazi (xiazi means a blind man) told her that there were monsters on her husband’s head, so he asked Zhao to dig three feet into the ground and bury a mirror where her husband slept. Because her husband was driving outside to make a living, she was afraid that her husband would be angry, so she asked her brother to secretly dig up the cement floor and bury the mirror inside. She tried all kinds of weird methods but none of them could cure her disease, and instead it got worse. She went to Beijing to see a doctor but she didn’t get a good result, and she was almost deceived by a scammer. Around 1989, her second aunt took her to seek treatment from an old lady with small feet who practiced witchcraft in Heli Town. The old lady said, “Oh, this child is hopeless” and refused to help her. She cried when she came out. Later, her second aunt said that if there was no other way, she could send her to the church established in north side of the town. Some people said that the church could save people. The second aunt didn’t believe it either, so she took her to the church because she had no choice. When they arrived at the church, everyone had finished worshiping, and she sat in the church and cried all the time. When the meeting ended, someone asked her why she was crying. She said she was dying and had two children. Later, someone from the church shared the gospel with her. She said she had worshiped many gods but nothing worked. The evangelist said: “Those gods you worship are all false gods. We worship the only true God, just like what we Chinese call Lao Tian Ye (Lao Tian Ye means Heavenly Grandpa).” The evangelist also said: “If you believe in the Lord, even if you are not well, your soul can go to heaven and you will never suffer any more.” So, she believed it. She was very pious and sometimes knelt in the snow in the northeast to pray. At that time, she cried out to God every day, asking God to let her see her child grow up to 10 years old. (But she never expected that her grandson is already 14 years old this year!) As a result, God not only healed her, but also used her greatly later. She didn’t have any serious health problems after that until last year.”

Zhao was the first person who clearly told me the gospel of Christ. People often say that there were “three excesses” among Christians in China at that time: many were old people, many were sick, and many were women. Most people believe in the Lord with utilitarianism, that is to satisfy their physical needs, to be healed of illness, to have peace at home, etc. We met every Wednesday night, Friday night, and Sunday night, and Uncle Shen Xuchun (who has passed away) read the spiritual materials. At that time, I had congenital heart disease and was in a state of heart failure. When I first went to church, I also had a therapeutic and skeptical attitude. After one meeting, she said: “Everyone in the world is a sinner. We all inherited original sin from Adam. Every day we commit sins such as lying, swearing, jealousy, stealing, etc. To save us, the loving God gave His only begotten Son Jesus Christ to us. He died for us on the cross and rose again from the death on the third day. As long as we are willing to admit that we are sinners and accept Jesus Christ as our Savior, our sins can be forgiven, and we can receive eternal life in heaven through faith in Jesus.” The gospel she shared made me understand the true meaning of believing in the Lord. Our mother and sister experienced many hardships when they first believed in the Lord. My brother blew up his finger while playing with a detonator in school. Their faith weakened. Zhao came to our house to tell us the Lord’s true way. She said: “It is not always smooth sailing for our believers in the Lord. The Lord allows us to encounter all kinds of sufferings and tests. But no matter what kind of suffering we go through, the Lord will be with us.” Her words made me vaguely remember that believing in the Lord is not about ensuring that everything goes well for us, but about having the Lord’s presence during trials.

Zhao was the one who the Lord used to build his church. The first church God used Paul to establish in Philippi, Europe was through a sister named Lydia (Acts 16:15). Zhao graduated from elementary school (one year of junior high school), but was used by the Lord to establish a church. She used to run a small store (at that time, small stores in rural areas played an important role in the lives of local people. In the small store, people can purchase snacks and daily necessities, etc., and its existence could meet the needs of most rural people). After believing in the Lord, she dedicated the small store as a family gathering point, commonly known as “Kangtou gathering” (Kangtou is a special kind of bed in northeastern China. People sat on Kangtou to have a gathering).  6-7 people began to gather at her home. The number of people who came to the gathering fluctuated. Once a believer in the Lord encountered suffering, a group of people would not come to the gathering. After a while, the church slowly developed again. At the beginning, Zhao got study materials from various places, including the Ten Commandments, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Catechism, and everyone read together. Gradually, they began to sing hymns, recite the Apostles’ Creed, read the Bible, read spiritual materials, pray, recite the Lord’s Prayer. Zhao organized various church activities and rehearsed gospel programs during festivals, including clapper talk, dance, crosstalk, gospel skits. In addition to performing in the church, we also performed on the streets of surrounding villages to spread the gospel for the Lord.

        The gospel had a huge impact in the village, “to open people’s eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God” (Acts 26:18). At that time, many people abandoned idols and followed the true God. The gospel gave the whole village hope and strength, and cured many people physically and spiritually, giving them hope in life. It enabled people with little education to seek the truth and increase knowledge through reading the Bible and praying every day. The gospel enabled housewives who used to gossip and criticize others to learn the way of repentance, sing hymns of praise, and pursue eternal life. The gospel also enabled many men who played mahjong and gambled in winter to abandon their bad habits and go to church to worship the Lord. During festivals, they did a kind of China northeastern dance, called “Yangge” in the form of the gospel, were positive and lived a spiritual life. The gospel changed people’s customs of funerals. In traditional Chinese rural areas, when someone died, they would kowtow eight times and bow nine times, make a big fuss, burn paper cows, paper horses, and burn paper money, and the sound of mourning was creepy. After believing in the Lord, people adopted Christian rituals to simplify funerals, with choirs singing, praying, and preaching at funerals. This is both solemn and dignified, hygienic and clean, and it also bears witness to the holy name of the Lord.

         In 2000, with the assistance of many churches in Hegang City, brothers and sisters worked together to build a Bethel church building. It was the best building in the whole village and even among the twelve villages in Xinhua Town. Brothers and sisters from many surrounding places, including Yong’an, Sanlian, Silian, Wulian, Liulian, Qilian, Balian, Jiulian, Shilian, Luchang and other places, come here to gather. Since the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, that church has not been used due to various reasons. The Lord said, “A time to build and a time to tear down.” 20 years ago, the Lord used her and other brothers and sisters to build a church to demonstrate the glory of God. Later, although people could not gather in church, the church penetrated deeply into everyone’s heart. The external cross was torn down, but the crosses in people’s hearts were erected. Over the past 30 years, spiritual churches have been built in the lives of many brothers and sisters. A church is not a church building, but a gathering of believers. The process of building the church goes from invisible to tangible, and then from tangible to invisible. Finally, Christians will be brought together into the eternal kingdom of heaven—the complete spiritual world. Zhao said: “Thank you for the Lord’s step-by-step guidance. In the past, when there was a church building, only a handful people attended the gatherings. Now at least 70-80 people attended each gathering, and everyone loved the Lord very passionately and was full of faith. This is all from God.”

Zhao was a person who prayed and praised. When she was in her hometown in the countryside, she often prayed in the morning. She would go to the church to pray and praise at 4 o’clock every morning alone (sometimes accompanied by one or two older sisters), and each time would last at least an hour and a half. She also organized evening prayer meetings in the evening. She spent at least 3-5 hours a day praying and praising. The content of her prayers is very broad, ranging from world peace, leaders of various departments of the country, and the gospel spreading in churches everywhere, to the health and safety of each brother and sister’s family, and the children’s entrance exams. The Lord used her prayers with great power, and together with pastors and co-workers, she healed the sick and cast out demons, visited the sick, and benefited many people. When I was possessed by an evil spirit in 1993, Zhao came to my house every night to pray, fight the devil, and finally won, so that I was healed and released. She has been using prayer to support my serving for many years. No matter how far I go, I cannot do anything without the power of her and the brothers and sisters’ prayers. Especially during the COVID-19 period, when faced with various obstacles and attacks on the church’s reopening stage, her and the brothers and sisters’ prayers in my hometown church enabled me to overcome challenges and get through the difficulties. She often fasted and prayed for her brothers and sisters, sometimes for one or two days, sometimes for three to five days.

          Zhao’s daughter Mingming said: “During the period when her condition worsened, she did not give up praying. She insisted on taking notes and praying no matter how painful it was every day. She always put God’s house first. Living in this small family on earth, she never stayed at my house in another city for more than seven days. She could not stay at her daughter’s house for more than a few days and was anxious to go home to visit the frail and sick elderly, thinking about every brother and sister in the church who needed service. Every night she carefully checked each of the dozens of WeChat groups on two mobile phones. She almost fell asleep on her knees in the arms of the Lord every night. We saw my mother kneeling in bed praying countless times in the middle of the night. She really couldn’t live without God 24 hours a day! Just after chemotherapy, she learned that an elderly Christian in her hometown had passed away. She was worried about the old man’s funeral in the early morning because the old man had told her that he wanted the funeral to be held according to the church’s ritual. She cried and begged the old man’s son to fulfill his wish. She ignored her own health and was very emotional. Every day her room was filled with the sound of sermons and praise. In the later stage, she was paralyzed in the lower body and had incontinence, but she still danced with her hands to praise God and clapped her hands to glorify God.” 

Zhao was a caring person. The Lord has placed the great love of the Kingdom of God in her heart. She not only loves her husband, children, and family, but also loves every brother and sister in the church, theological students, and fellow pastors. Although her family was not wealthy, she often gave generously to seminarians, pastors, poor brothers and sisters, etc. Her greatest love for people is to preach the gospel to them. The Lord used her to lead around 40 people from her mother’s family and her husband’s family to believe in the Lord. She taught her children to be kind and asked them to deliver meals and clean houses for the lonely elderly in the village all year round.

          To some extent, Zhao was not a brave person. Sometimes she was very timid, just like Judge Gideon. She used to be afraid to speak in public, to do an opening prayer, or meet some officials, but later she overcame these difficulties one by one with the help of the Holy Spirit. After being diagnosed with lung cancer, she never shed tears or showed fear because of the disease. She never cried in front of her family. She always comforted us by saying, “It’s okay, Mom is okay.” The power of the Lord is manifested in weak people. If she were bold and strong, she would be very proud. However, the Lord uses weak and humble people to accomplish His power, so that no fleshly person can boast before God. 

          Once, I shared with a seeker that I believed in the Lord through Zhao’s sharing. This seeker asked: “She did not have a formal theology training. What if she has a biased understanding of the Bible?” My answer is: “Each of us, including pastors, has limitations in our understanding of the Lord. But thank God, the Holy Spirit has been helping us. On the road of our faith, the Holy Spirit of truth will constantly correct and adjust us, so that we can continue to walk on the right path of the Lord. The most important thing is that people can continue to learn in theological understanding. As long as they confess Jesus Christ as the Lord with their mouths, believe in the Lord’s death and resurrection in their hearts, confess their sins and repent, and exalt and praise the holy name of God, they will obtain it.”

Without suffering, there is no perfection. The Lord Jesus “although he was a Son, yet he learned obedience through what he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him” (NKJV Hebrews 5:8-9). This does not mean that the Lord Jesus was disobedient before, but learned to obey after suffering, but that his obedience during the suffering of the cross demonstrated and witnessed the perfection of his humanity. Zhao had small cell lung cancer in the last stage of her life. In this process, she suffered a lot. When she was a child, she was most afraid of needles. But when she was suffering, she had to face chemotherapy and radiotherapy in the hospital. She experienced a lot of physical pain. In the end, she couldn’t even drink water. But every time a little water was inserted with a needle, she raised her head hard, as if to throw it away. Every time she swallowed a little water, she said “Hallelujah” and “Thank the Lord”. She really didn’t blame God. As long as she could speak, she praised the Lord. She liked to play bawu (a free reed instrument. She used to lead some sisters to play bawu to praise the Lord and preach the gospel at church gatherings, festivals, weddings, and funerals). She said, “I really want to play bawu for the Lord again, but I can’t have enough energy to play it anymore.” During her illness, her family did all their duties, and tried all the methods that could be used by Western and Chinese medicine. Brothers and sisters also made countless prayers. But the Lord is a sovereign God, and He knows what is best for Zhao and everyone. From her suffering, we learned the lesson of relying on the Lord to be strong. From this we understand that only by passing through Mount Calvary can we reach the empty tomb; only by being dealt with by the cross can the glory of resurrection be manifested; “For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all” (NIV 2 Corinthians 4:17).

          The Lord said, “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (NIV John 12:24). Paul also said, “I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. Now this I say to you by the word of the Lord: We who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first, Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore, comfort one another with these words” (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). 1 Corinthians 15:35-44 also says: “But if someone asks, ‘How are the dead raised? And with what body do they come? ‘Foolish man! What you sow cannot come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to come, but only a grain, of wheat or some other kind of cereal; But God gave it a body as He pleased, and gave each seed its own body. All flesh is not the same: there is one flesh among men, another among animals, another among birds, and another among fishes. There are celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies, but the glory of the celestial bodies is one, and the glory of the terrestrial bodies is another. The sun has its own glory, the moon has its own glory, and the stars have their own glory, and the glory of one star differs from another. So it is with the resurrection of the dead: it is sown perishable, it is raised imperishable ; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; What is sown is a physical body, what is raised is a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.” Last Sunday, August 11, when I was video chatting with Zhao, I saw the glory on her face. I exclaimed, “That is not the face of an earthly person, that is clearly the glory of heaven!” The people who have died in the Lord have the hope of resurrection!

         Zhao’s younger sister, Zhao Guihong, shared: 

“In the last year of her life, no matter how uncomfortable she was, she never stopped arranging church services. She planned which day to have a church meeting, what to do on which day, who to invite to the meeting, and where to visit. When she passed away, she told me that within three days, God would either heal her or take her away. On the third day, God took her away. She had finished the race she should run, fought the battles she should fight, and kept the faith she should keep. There will be a crown of glory reserved for her. She has rested from all the labor and sorrow, all the pain and suffering on earth.

        On the day before she left, she told us a joke. She had been working in a rural production team since she was 15 years old. She liked watches very much, so she bought a small watch from a toy store and took it to work. Other workers asked her, ‘Oh, your watch is so beautiful.’ She said, ‘Of course, it is very beautiful!’ ‘I fooled them all. Later, they found that my watch did not work, so they asked me why. I said, ‘My watch is luminous and can only be seen at night.’ Two years later, the toy watch rusted and was thrown away. She has never bought another one. In fact, it sounds like a joke, and our family members were very sad. She has never bought anything for herself in her life. She met the needs of her family and others, and finally she was the only one missing. When she left, the church bought her a watch, and she liked it very much. She said that she would not wear any other clothes when she left, but a wedding dress. She left in a wedding dress because she would prepare as a bride beautifully dressed for Jesus.”

         Mingming said: 

         “On the day she passed away, she kept smiling, turning over and laughing, drinking water and laughing. She had no pain all day and slept very comfortably. When she turned over, she said, ‘It was such a good sleep!’ She kept saying ‘Amen’ and ‘Thank God.’ We thought it was the effect of the painkillers that made her sleepy, but in fact she was already dying and trying to stay alive. We took her from the hospital to home and first went upstairs in Hegang City. Along the way, she kept smiling and saying, ‘I’m fine, fine!’ In the car, we talked and laughed. She was very beautiful and very comfortable. She couldn’t breathe when she got upstairs. After a while of rescue, she still said ‘Amen’ to my aunt and tried hard to force a smile. We took her to our hometown in Yongli. We called her loudly to let her stay awake until she got home, while giving her a cardiotonic. My brother, my aunt and I sang loudly all the way home: ‘I will bless you today, Jehovah will protect you every day … Rely on Jesus, don’t be shaken, we have been blessed for life!’ In my memory, this song was the blessing my mother always sent to everyone who would leave home, including me, relatives, and friends. Today, we know that she is leaving, she is going to the Heavenly Father, and we have to say ‘goodbye’ to her in the world, so we kept on singing this song to her! When we first arrived at Yongli’s hometown, we put her on the kang, she took her last breath. At this moment, she is enjoying eternal glory in the arms of the Heavenly Father!

         Cui Wei, the niece of Zhao, shared: “Thank God for placing such a good Elder aunt in my life. Her life has deeply impacted me. I have been going to her house since I was a child during the summer vacation. Every time I went there, I saw she was lying on the kang, sorting out sermon materials, covering the whole kang, with so many words densely written in her notebook. Every time I went to her house, I saw her reading the Bible, or holding her cell phone to communicate with others and serve others. After the last church meeting, she passed by a village Shilian. On the way, she told my sister (Zhao’s daughter Mingming), ‘I want to go to Shilian to visit a senior.’ The Holy Spirit was leading her, and she happened to see two seniors at the intersection of Shilian. One of them was pushing the other in a wheelchair. They told the second aunt, ‘I thought your church didn’t want us anymore.’ She has always put serving the Lord as the most important thing. Even when she was seriously ill, she never stopped praising God. On her Memorial Service, flowers were placed everywhere. Many people from all around the villages and towns came to pay their respects to her. An 85-year-old elder did a benediction during the Memorial Service.  People crying as they followed the hearse for a long distance. The villagers said that this was a grand ceremony that had never been seen before. There are many powerful people in the world, but there are few people who will cry for them when they die. From now on, we must love the Lord even more, pray more, and praise more.”

         Mingming added: “Since her illness, many brothers and sisters have been praying for her with tears all the time. Too many other children call her ‘Zhao Ma’ or ‘Granny Guiqin’… She has given many children confidence and encouragement. From children as young as a few years old to centenarians, they all trusted her and liked her! One child said: ‘These days, every time I think of my aunt, I think of her loving smile. This is the beauty she gave me when I grew up…’ Another child posted on WeChat Moments: ‘As a child, when I went back to my hometown, my aunt would say to me: ‘Mei Li, God bless you, the Lord is with you’… From childhood to adulthood, Mei Li was always so good in her eyes… She loves her own children as people, and loves other people’s children as gods … May there be no suffering and pain in the other space, only joy and peace…❤”

        There is a saying in Schindler’s List: “Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.” I firmly believe that the Lord has influenced the whole world through Zhao. The Lord has passed the gospel to me through her and many other elders, and I can share the gospel I received from them with my brothers and sisters in the United States. Then, those who receive the gospel we preach will continue to spread it… In this way, the gospel will spread to the ends of the earth until the day when the Lord comes again! May the glory be to the true God of the Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit! Amen!

        (Thanks to Heavenly Father for leading the writing of this article; thanks also to Pastor Wang Haixia, Mu Mingna, Zhao Guihong, Zhao Guihua, Cui Wei, and Li Chunyan for providing relevant information)

注：上周看到许多牧者和同工在社交平台上提到“彭蒙惠”这个名字。我问我们教会的魏牧师和师母（他们曾在台湾作宣教士30多年）是否认识她。魏师母说:  “是的，我们认识她。一个非常敬虔的姐妹。她的机构/事工多年来遍布全岛各地。她为学校和公众做了一个非常出色的基督徒见证。”魏牧师也说：“她的电视英语课在台湾很受欢迎。她的基督教音乐团体在台湾和许多亚洲国家都很有名。他们会在美国巡回演出。她和裴斐老师（英文名：Faye Pearson, 我以前在南京神学院的教授https://lricbc.org/?p=1023）也很熟悉。这些年来我见过她几次。”在此，特从网上搜集她的一些见证与弟兄姐妹分享。
彭蒙惠（英语：Doris Marie Brougham，1926年8月5日—2024年8月6日）是一位美国教育家和传教士。她出生于西雅图一个德裔基督教家庭，家中有8个兄弟姊妹。12岁那年的暑期圣经夏令营里，中国布道家计志文面向一群美国人问到：“有谁愿意去中国，帮助那里人民的需要？”小彭蒙惠举起了手。身旁的大人都笑了，认为她不知道自己在做什么。
1948年于美国华盛顿大学主修远东研究毕业后，面对纽约伊斯特曼音乐学院全额奖学金将来可能成为小喇叭演奏家的梦想，诗篇2:8浮现在她脑海中：“你求我，我就将列国赐你为产业，将地极赐你为田产。”列国？地极？这是指中国吗？彭蒙惠踌躇着。最后，她回应神：“如果祢需要我，我愿意为祢去到地球最远的地方”。于是，彭蒙惠告别父母家人，以传教士身分从西雅图搭乘6个星期的船到上海。适逢中国第二次内战，她随差会逃往不同城市，1949年逃至英属香港；1951年到台湾后，彭蒙惠随即选择台湾东岸花莲县服事。在那里两个礼拜后，她妈妈得严重感冒，礼拜五生病，礼拜天去世。那时，她爸爸妈妈都不在了，她很难过。主安慰她说：“你放心好了，我会一直保守你”。当时那里信主的人还不到1%。她祷告，神就给她一个字“Radio”（广播）。神感动她在花莲开始第一个福音广播节目。她说：“为什么不作广播，广播很多人会听。神就讲，为什么你不做。你可以做，我帮你做。但是我没有做过。所以，神会帮助我”。
彭蒙惠学习到，要接触人，“你必须做一些事情来吸引他们的注意，你必须与人有连结，而不只是与人有沟通。”为了将福音传给更多人，她在1951年创办台湾第一个基督教广播节目。同年，在台湾刚开始出现电视机的时期，台湾只有一家电视台，彭蒙惠需要与佛教和天主教竞争宗教节目独播的时段。她的节目（包括儿童诗班和传统音乐、诗班颂歌、戏剧、讲道，以及她的小号演奏）总是有音乐，所以电视台选择了她。她还记得人们挤在寺庙所拥有的当时罕见的电视机旁，观看她制作的讲道和诗班演唱节目。“你能有多少机会在佛教寺庙里布道呢？”彭蒙惠说，“上帝早已计划好这一切的发生。”那时电视台时段每个月要付1000美金，对他们是很大的负担。她的薪水是200块。但是他们一直祷告，神就不断供应。有一次，礼拜六他们还没有钱。会计说：“下周一要付钱”。她说：“你为什么着急，今天才礼拜六，还有两天呢”。结果礼拜天有一个从加拿大来的中国人奉献1000块。她说：“神不要我们为他做什么，他就是要我们为他做他要我们做的事”。
1962年她成立《空中英语教室》广传福音，并以发行英语学习杂志闻名。她说：“我们不是教英文，我们是用英文看这个世界。我们叫他们打开他们的眼睛。所以很多人在全世界因为空中英文教室信耶稣。我想神用这个英文。不是因为英文，是因为我们跟他讲，你现在需要英文，但你更需要耶稣。所以，英文作为一个桥梁”。当年，她喜欢在节目播出的时段骑脚踏车到街上，听听各家各户和寺庙里的人收听她的节目。有一次，有个尼姑打电话给她，悄悄地问她哪里可以找到圣经。看到她的成功，远东广播公司邀请她开发更多中文节目，并在中国大陆播放。
她1963年创立天韵合唱团——第一个全职台湾人福音合唱团，创作华语福音歌曲传递福音。 她说： “其实神最愛中国人，因为他做了那么多中国人”。她说：“你若做神要你做的事，你不会后悔。你会在其中得到快乐”。2023年她接受CNA访问时说，“我来这里服事全是上帝的带领，我只是每一天都想着要服事祂。然后一天变成几个月，再变成几年，还后哇！72年后我还在这里！”
彭蒙惠像火柴照亮人。她去世前不久还在天韵合唱团吹小号。她说：“我们可以退休吗？圣经没有说可以退休。我不要退，因为退是backward(落后)，我们要往前走。”她说：“愛永不止息。要在别人的需要上看到我们的责任”。她得过无数奖项。她说：“心在哪里，家就在哪里，而我的心在这，台湾就是我的家”。2023年6月20日，由时任总统授予她中华民国国籍护照。她说：“我很不配，我是非常平凡的人”。她常用天国的护照作比喻邀请人信耶稣。刚庆祝完生日后一天，她被主接回天家，享耆寿98岁。那天，她的脸书上发布：“彭蒙惠老师于台北时间8月6日傍晚人生毕业了！现在已加入天堂的乐团，继续快乐的吹奏小喇叭！” 她被葬于基督教墓园。她一生没有结婚，没有房产，按其遗嘱，将其著作权和遗物捐赠给救世传播协会。她是一位值得我们效法的属灵前辈！

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•    https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2024/august/doris-brougham-missionary-taiwan-studio-classroom-zh-hans.html
•    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL_57tDthH8
•    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyaRIekVeFA
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