Meeting my benefactor - Part 2

My benefactor, he is a changed man. Eighteen years ago when I told him that Fuller Seminary School of Psychology offered me a place in their Marriage and Family Therapy PhD program, he laughed and said that's a second rate program from a second rate school. He told me I should aim at Clinical Psychology program at UCLA. Well, as you know I ended up not going to any of the several graduate schools I secured a place in.

We got to talk for a little bit, but I sense, now that he is in retirement, he is focusing all his energy in full time ministry equipping future bible teachers. He is passionate about ministry to the mainland Chinese people, and he is also passionate about lay people being equipped with solid biblical teaching.

Had I have the chance to tell him that my major accomplishment in the past 18 years constituted only in bringing my two children to Christ, he'd have been proud of me.

When I look at his past and present, I remember my favorite passage from Oswald Chambers's My Utmost for His Highest, February 5th and 6th entries which says,

"It is one thing to go on the lonely way with dignified heroism. but quite another thing if the line mapped out for you by God means being a door-mat under other people's feet ... 'Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.' The altar means fire-burning and purification and insulation for one purpose only, the destruction of every affinity that God has not started and of every attachment that is not an attachment in God. You do not destroy it, God does; you bind the sacrifice to the horns of the altar; and see that you do not give way to self-pity when the fire begins. After this way of fire, there is nothing that oppresses or depresses. When the crisis arises, you realize that things cannot touch you as they used to do."

He is binding the sacrifice with cords unto the horns of the altar.