I know it’s been several months since I began my posts on Hudson Taylor (all of 2 of them), but I still want to pick up where I left off and continue to write about him and his life and what I have gleaned from the book.
Soon after his conversion, he felt a strong desire to be used by God. He began to pray about what God wanted him to do with his life and felt a strong calling to China. Only being 17 at the time, he could not yet fulfill this calling to go. So what did he do? He prepared the best he could. Despite not having a teacher, he learned over 500 Chinese characters and their meaning (though he didn’t know how to pronounce them), he began to study his Bible more diligently, he worked hard at assisting a doctor and learned all he could from him and he ministered to people living around him.
I’m eager to go back to China, but I know that I need to be built up in the faith and be more equipped before I am ready to live there full time. I can identify with this part of his story:
“It was evident to those whose opinions he valued most that the time had not yet come for him to go forward [to China]. He was too young as yet. Further training and experience in the things of God were needed. It was well, no doubt, that it was in his heart to leave all and follow wherever the Master led. But was He leading just at that time to China? To his parents and friends it seemed not.”
Three and a half years he waited before it was time to go. That number is not my hope. I’m not counting on being sent out after waiting for that length of time. I just want to be faithful until it is time to go.
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