Great Truths

You who bring tidings to Zion, go up on a high mountain. (Isaiah 40:9)

This morning I read L.B. Cowman’s “Streams in the Desert” and came across these great thoughts about great truths. I want to share with you, my dear son Zi On, and all who remember you and miss you dearly in their hearts as I do every day.

“Toys and trinkets are easily earned, but the most valuable things carry a heavy price. The highest places of power are always bought with blood, and you can attain those pinnacles if you have enough blood to pay. That is the condition of conquering holy heights everywhere.

The story of true heroics is always the story of sacrificial blood.

The greatest values and character in life are not blown randomly across our path by wayward winds, for great souls experience great sorrows.

Great truths are dearly bought, the common truths,
Such as we give and take from day to day,
Come in common walk of easy life,
Blown by the careless wind across our way.

Great truths are greatly won, not found by chance,
Not wafted on the breath of summer dream;
But grasped in the great struggle of our soul,
Hard buffeting with adverse wind and stream.

But in the day of conflict, fear and grief,
When the strong hand of God, put forth in might,
Plow up the subsoil of our stagnant heart,
And bring the imprisoned truth seed to the light.

Wrung from the troubled spirit, in hard hours
Of weakness, solitude, and times of pain,
Truth springs like harvest from the well-plowed field,
And our soul feels it has not wept in vain.

Our capacity for knowing God is enlarged when we are brought by Him into circumstances that cause us to exercise our faith. So when difficulties block our path, may we thank God that He is taking time to deal with us, and then may we lean heavily on Him.”

My dear son Zi On, in your search for your purpose in life, I know like anyone else who is serious about what he really wants to do with his life, you had experienced pain and solitude. You had told me before, “I want to do something different, and dare to be different.” On your graduation day, holding your cert, you said to your father and me, “This is nothing, I’m not proud at all, I want to attain something better!” But at that time and earlier, we never knew and I suppose you never knew either what God’s full plan for your life was, what truly was that something better. Like every parents who pray for their children, do we really know the extent and content of God’s answer?

But Mrs Cowman’s sharing about great truths does shed some light of what we can know:

The most valuable things carry a heavy price.

The story of true heroics is always the story of sacrifice.

To conquer holy heights, one must go up on a high mountain and be prepared to pay a cost.

Great truths are not found by chance but grasped in great struggle of our soul, and are dearly won through adverse wind and stream.

In the day of adversary, fear and grief, God’s mighty hand is at work to stir our heart to see the light of truth.

In times of pain and sorrow, our souls never weep in vain.

I learnt that:
When God leads us into circumstances of His sovereign plan and if we response by exercising our faith in Him, we do see a bigger God, a mightier God; and we can thank Him even for the bitter cup that He wants us to drink.

I choose to believe by faith that that December day in 2007, God’s strong hand did put forth in might to fulfill His beautiful plan for his dear child Zi On. I take comfort in His word in Isaiah 40:10:

See, the Sovereign LORD comes with power, and his arm rules for him. See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.

I choose to believe the truths that He has enlightened my soul to see.

I choose to go on by faith in our Sovereign God.

I choose to lean on Him.



With loving and endless memory of you, Zi On
MaMa
5.29a.m. 6-10-2009