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03. Erin Leung
03.
Erin Leung
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I’ve asked God why He has brought me all the way here to Canada where I had no family or friends. “Why now when I need the help from my family the most in raising my children, I’m thousands miles away from them?” Although I would ask (or should I say “complain”?) God questions like this, deep in my heart I knew that He had a perfect plan for me to be here at this particular time. I wasn’t obedient to God in the past. As the result, I learned many things in hard ways. After this particular hard lesson just before I came to Canada, I finally learned to obey God, which helped me to go through the trials when I would rather run back. Looking back at how God has guided me it’s clear to me that each step was to build the next one to lead me closer to God so that someday the gospel will spread through me the way He wants. Every time I am in a desperate need of some help from my family either physically, emotionally, or spiritually, I had only God to rely on. Being away from all the help I could have indeed brought me closer to the Lord. God surely knows me well; if it weren’t for the fact that I am here alone, I wouldn’t have learned to go to God first. But, this is just the tip of the iceberg that God wants me to learn. Our God is an awesome God! It’s after coming to Canada that I learned about having a personal relationship with the Lord, that I began to be able to read the Bible and feel so personal and relevant, that I am learning to live on God’s will rather than my will and to surrender completely to God. The most amazing experience recently, however, is that God has placed in me a stronger desire and courage to share the gospel with my non-believing family and friends. Through the last five years, God has showed me faithfully that when we make ourselves available to Him, He can lead us to where he wants us to be and place us where He’s at work. He has also proved again and again that “… all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.” (Romans 8:28) I feel so privileged and blessed to have such an awesome God to call Father.
