By Youxin Jealousy is ugly. Once it takes root in our hearts, we’ll be thrown into spiritual turmoil, and not only will jealousy drive us to do something to hurt others, but it will also corrode us. As it’s said, “Wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one” (Job 5:2). I saw on the news that a girl cruelly killed her model sister because of envying her beauty, and ultimately she was sentenced to thirteen years’ imprisonment. … Read More A Christian’s Sharing: The Three Paths to Getting Rid of the Harm of Jealousy

By Zhengqing The Bible says, “Truly I say to you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3). “And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God” (Revelation 14:5). “And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defiles, neither whatever works abomination, or makes a lie” (Revelation 21:27). These words of God clearly tell us … Read More Being Honest People Delightful to God by Practicing in Two Aspects

By Ji Xi I’m a college student, and because my family is poor, I need to get scholarships to pay my way through college. So, the grades I gain in each final exam are very important to me. Generally, before final examinations, our teachers will tell us what’s going to be covered on tests, so it’s always easy to get high marks. However, our Basics of Mechanical Design teacher was serious, and after teaching us the whole textbook, he didn’t … Read More By Relying on the Lord, I Got Not Only Full Marks

By Peihe These few years, almost all the land of our village has been occupied by some enterprises and developers, so the only two pieces of land that my extended family still held became extremely precious. My husband and his brothers discussed together and decided that my eldest sister-in-law’s family shared one piece of the land with my third sister-in-law’s and my family shared the other piece with my second sister-in-law’s. The next afternoon, when I went to level off … Read More The Lord’s Words Are the Lamp to My Feet and the Light to My Path

By Xinmei During the boundary survey in 2018, my neighbor said that the land distributed to him should have been 6 mu (0.988 acre) but it was actually 5.5 mu. I thought that maybe we occupied more land than we should, so we gave 0.5 mu of land to him. The neighbor then planted a line of small saplings near the boundary between our land and his, and grew crops on the rest of his land. One morning after the … Read More I Am Freed When Practicing the Lord’s Words and Forgiving Others

By Xiaocao As we all know, Sodom and Nineveh in the Bible were both evil and corrupt cities and the outcry against the cities had reached God’s ears, so God decided to rain disaster and destruction down upon them. It’s just as what Genesis 18:20–22 says, “And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the … Read More Enlightenment From God’s Destruction of Sodom and His Salvation of Nineveh

By Fang Hui One Friday evening, my colleagues and I worked overtime to finish up formulating an advertising proposal, the sound of tapping keys filling our office. Thinking of how ordinarily I received praise from my leaders and colleagues for doing work seriously and responsibly, I told myself that I could not fall behind this time. I racked my brains and kept researching, wanting to do a good proposal in short order. Suddenly, my partner Lisa rebuked me and said, … Read More Learning to Tolerate Others I Felt Liberated

By Xueyan A book tells me: When other people hurt you, you must face them with smiles, for only in this way can your heart be filled with love and sunshine. In real life, however, I am unable to smile at those who hurt me, nor can I let go of my resentment toward them, unless … My Relationship With My Mother-in-Law Breaks Up on the Mid-Autumn Festival Last Mid-Autumn Festival, soon after I returned home from my parents’, my … Read More Conflicts Between Mothers-in-Law and Daughters-in-Law Will Be Easy to Resolve As Long As …

By Wang Ying Whenever I see my lively and lovely child now, I’m always overcome with emotion. When thinking about the hair-raising accident that happened to her, I still feel a lingering fear. My house site was a large pit, and so I employed worketo fill the pit. On the afternoon of the accident, I, holding my baby over one year old, went to the house site near the village entrance and watched to see if everything was done properly. … Read More My One-Year-Old Child Miraculously Survived After Being Run Over by a Vehicle