At one time there were about a million blind people in China and very little was done to help them.
One evening Ching, a blind boy came to the gospel meeting for poor children. His lot in life was a very sad one. His own mother commented about him: “He is no good and will never bring much into the family. He only eats the family rice!”
Ching behaved very badly and continually disturbed the little weekly meetings. If it had not been for the fact that he was blind, he would have been refused on account of his behavior. But little did the missionaries imagine that God was speaking to Ching’s heart. As he listened to the simple story of God’s love, of the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus on the cross for sinners, poor blind Ching yielded his heart to the Lord.
The day came when his mother arranged for her son to go to the heathen temple to be taught fortune-telling. But soon after reaching the temple, Ching decided that it was no place for him, for he now belonged to the Lord Jesus. At the first opportunity he returned home.
When his mother discovered why he had left the temple, she shut the door of the little home in his face saying, “If that is the way you are going to behave, you shall never come into this house again.”
But a loving God and Father in heaven was caring for His poor homeless child, for the Bible says, “When my father and mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.” Psa. 27:1010When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. (Psalm 27:10).
A missionary sent Ching a Chinese braille primer, and slowly he learned to read. The time came when he would sit by the side of a busy street reading the Scriptures to all who would stop and listen. Only the power of Jesus Christ could bring such a change into a poor blind boy’s life.
It costs something to stand up for Jesus, but it counts. The power of His love which Ching had received into his heart by faith had changed everything for him. And this is what everyone needs—every boy and girl, every man and woman—to be changed! And this is the work of Christ in the soul.
“If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.... For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Cor. 5:2121For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2 Corinthians 5:21).
ML-09/04/1977