Hudson Taylor ***
With
faith in God he went to China , where he began a the very peculiar practice of
dressing like the Chinese did, instead of dressing in the western way. This brought about a great deal of
persecuting from his fellow missionaries, who dressed in the western style, and
appeared very strange to the Chinese.
He also started wearing his hair in the Chinese way as well.
Sometime
later he met another missionary, and found something that attracted him to her,
she was later to become his wife.
Hudson
Taylor founded the "China Inland Mission" and God gave his group of
dedicated missionaries a great deal of success, although the road alone the way
was rough.
One
thing that Hudson Taylor learned while in China, was to trust God in
everything. He hit a low spot in his
walk with the Lord, and started trying different things. first he fasted and prayed for about 30
days. When he had finished he felt just
as far from the Lord as when he had begun.
So he decided that what was missing was a deep search of the
Scriptures. He studied the Bible for
approximately 30 days, and when finished he still felt far from the Lord. As despair started to set in he received a
letter from a good friend, who had just experienced a similar thing in his walk
with the Lord. His friend told him
about trying different things and then just simply trusting the Lord with the
whole matter, he said I just saw that Jesus was my salvation and my walk, and
everything else. Hudson Taylor took
this advise to heart, laid everything down before the Lord, and simply trusted
Jesus!
A quote;
Christ is either Lord of
all, or He is not Lord at all.
We are not only to renounce
evil, but to manifest the truth.
We tell people the world is
vain; let our lives manifest that it is so.
We tell them that our home
is above and that all these things are transitory.
Does our dwelling look like
it?
O to live consistent lives!