📖A Symphony of My Fate | Eastern Lightning

My family was very poor when I was young, and thus I set a goal in my heart: I can’t live in this way for my whole life, and I must rise above others when I grow up. So I studied hard at school, hoping to change my fate by testing into college. However, when I was fifteen, my father got hemiplegia, and he could no longer work to support our family. At that time, I didn’t do well in classes, so I thought I might as well drop out of school so as to reduce the burden on my parents. After leaving school, although my dream of rising above others in my studies was shattered, I believed that one could have a good fate by his own effort, and that as long as I worked hard, I would assuredly build up a career and change my hard lot. At that time, I noticed that auto mechanic was quite popular, then I asked a favor of my relatives to find a car mechanic in the county for me, and I began to learn automobile repairs from him. Through three years of diligent study and constant practice, I mastered many critical techniques.

The Ups and Downs of My Life (2) | The Church of Almighty God

The Ups and Downs of My Life (2) | The Church of Almighty God

preached God’s gospel of the kingdom

    In the spring of 2014, my mother-in-law set me up in business—opening a Chinese food store. I saw the dawn of hope in my life again. Moreover, at the end of July in 2015, I got a bigger surprise: A Chinese girl, who often came to my shop, preached God’s gospel of the kingdom to me after we got familiar with each other. She genuinely told me her story. She said it was God that had saved her. As her husband had an affair, she got hurt and felt desperate. Were it not for the guidance of God, she might have killed herself. … I was touched by her heartfelt words and personal experience, and was attracted by God’s wonderful deeds and great power. I also told her about my own experience, and said to her, “In the past, there were many believers in the Lord coming to preach gospel to me, yet I just turned them down. But this time, it is different. I feel I have quite a lot to say to you.”

The Ups and Downs of My Life (1) | The Church of Almighty God

The Ups and Downs of My Life (1) | The Church of Almighty God

Jiejing    South Korea

I was born to an ordinary peasant family in northeast China. We passed our lives with our faces to the earth and our backs to the sky for generations. Seeing my forebears spend every day doing backbreaking labor in the fields, the ignorant me said to myself, “I’m not going to live like them.” Therefore, as a child, I swore I would study hard and walk out of the countryside with my own efforts. As I grew older, this resolution gradually took root in my heart. To realize my wish, I buried myself in my studies every day. Never did I dare to slack off. Even when my friends and classmates hung out after school or at weekends, I just shut myself indoors studying. My parents advised me to go play outside, but I said, “No, I must study hard. I want to go to college and get a good job in the future. Only then can I earn money and buy you a house in town, so we no longer have to live in the countryside.”