It's time to design your ‘Greedy’ North Korean woman became generous in Christ, was tortured for her newfound faith
By Mark Ellis, Special to ASSIST News Service
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (ANS - December 14, 2015)
-- She was known as the “greedy woman” who refused to share with the
poor — even with her own relatives. She had a comfortable existence, in
relative terms, in a totalitarian communist system where the average
wage is five dollars a day and many struggle with malnutrition due to
inadequate food supplies.
“She did not even share a bowl of rice with her cousins,” says Peter Kim, with Cornerstone Ministries International.
One
day the woman traveled to China and stayed in a relative’s home. A
Christian missionary visited the home and she overheard an unusual
conversation about someone named Jesus, but she didn’t pay much
attention.
The
next day the same missionary came to visit and she heard him tell the
story of Jesus feeding 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two
small fishes. As she listened to the story, her curiosity mounted. “How
could that be?” she asked several times.
Then
she heard about Jesus dying on the cross for her sins. “Why in the
world would someone die for someone else on a cross?” she asked.
Either that man was mentally retarded or the real God, she thought to herself. It bothered her all night and all day. Her consternation continued for several more days.
She
actually stopped eating for a day as she pondered the reality of Jesus.
“Did he also die for me?” she kept asking. “What would happen to my
sin? Could I really go to heaven?”
Photo captions: 1) Woman who spent time in North Korea prison camp confirms accounts of torture. 2) Mark Ellis.
About the writer: Mark Ellis is senior correspondent for the ASSIST News Service (www.assistnews.net) and also founder of www.Godreports.com, a
website that shares stories and testimonies and videos from the church
around the world. He is also the co-host for "Windows on the World" with
ANS Founder, Dan Wooding, on the Holy Spirit Broadcasting Network (http://hsbn.tv).
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