People's stories

I like hearing people’s stories and reading about people’s lives. I remember going on long distance buses across provinces in high school, and like sitting beside elderly people so I could hear their story. Every person has a story to tell and it always fascinates me hearing other people’s experience.

The last year, I read a few auto/biographies including the former deputy Prime Minister John Anderson, the famous evangelist Billy Graham and the founder of the flying doctors John Flynn. All have interesting stories, but what struck me the most with all these Christian men are their unshakable faith, their absolute integrity and their genuine humility. It’s hard to be honest in the political arena, we all have seen corruption in the highest level of governments, yet John Anderson is regarded by his colleagues to be a man of integrity above all else. Billy Graham despite his enormous success in bringing so many to Christ, was grateful and humbled for God to use him at all. And John Flynn, facing such an impossible task and in such unfavourable conditions, never doubt that his God given vision would be fulfilled, and it did.

I’m encouraged to know and grateful for these godly men who have made such an impact in the world we live in and be examples that we can follow.