Life pressures gradually got him.
Ministry and full time service turned out to be more demanding than he expected. There was no reward but reprimanding. The hours were long and work never seemed to end. Life was lonely and discouraging.
He soon forgot the reasons for serving the Lord. He then started to consider things of the world : luxurious materials that appear before him and a comfort zone provided by his unsaved parents.
(NB: It is very common in China for parents to arrange everything for their children, including a job that provides “security”, good money and easy load, regardless of the costs.) So, with the pull factor plus the push factor, he gave in, and gave up. He chose to walk the path of his own, knowing that it would not please his Savior.
So, what had gone wrong?
Like many young people, Bro YZ was afraid to step into the real world and had not recognized that the spiritual battle is real. Most of these Christian University graduates are not trained to shine for Jesus after they leave the campus. They have no examples in their Church/Campus Ministry to follow. Thus, when they step into the work place, they do not know how to deal with real life issues.
They do not know how to interact with the unsaved. They do not know how to handle work pressures. But most of all, they do not know how to depend on the Holy Spirit, and soon forget to pray and lean on His Word.
Please pray that God will give the Shepherds wisdom on how to minister to the fresh graduates as part of the Post-university Ministry here. It seems that this phase of life and training has been neglected.
Please also pray that Christians will recognize that spiritual growth is not only driven by ministry, programs or people, but by being grounded in His truth and knowing His grace. May God guard the hearts of His people, the dear souls whom He died on the cross for!
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a touching blog that shows our need to share and encourage one another with our joys, sorrows, triumphant and deep solacing moments. take heart that many, thousands of kms away from you are prayer warriors daily on their knees praying for you and many others around the world