A pastor in southwestern China – jailed for nearly a year on fabricated charges and suffering a liver disease – focussed on trusting God in a November letter of encouragement to his wife.
Authorities took Pastor Li Guozhi, better known as Yang Hua, into custody after a raid on his church in central Guizhou Province in December 2015. In a letter to his wife, Wang Hongwu, Pastor Yang encourages her to focus more on God than on the ‘noise’ of humanity.
Wonderful God
‘Our wonderful God, our Lord forever’, he writes. ‘Who can guess his wisdom and mystery? Our faith is built on his words (he never changes and never does wrong; this is the unchangeable maxim). Sometimes, somebody will decide something by guessing and then testing [their guess], but we don’t. We listen more to God and less to human beings.’
