Until the Morning Star Rises in Your Hearts
Lim Ji-yeon from Seongnam, Korea
It was when I was in the first year of high school. The math teacher handed out papers with an interesting pattern and told us how to look at it. When I did as the teacher directed, after a good while, I could see a three-dimensional shape built on the flat picture. Excited, I took it home and showed it to my mom. My mom, who succeeded at the end of a longer challenge, was amazed, seeing the picture again and again. The picture was a Magic Eye.
A few years later, I received the truth through my older sister. Then my mom came to mind first. Mom was always living a hard life, raising her eight children along with farm work. But she had never missed dawn prayer at the church. I wanted to let her know the news of salvation as soon as possible because she said our souls must go to heaven though we were living a tough life on this earth.
When I told her the truth, she read the Bible with astonished eyes, but as she had attended her church for decades, it was hard for her to make up her mind easily. Then one day, my mom asked me, “Does the way to heaven rise clearly in your eyes just like the picture you showed me before?”
I said God clearly showed me the way to heaven which she yearned for so much. At that moment, I was reminded of a verse in the Bible.
“And we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.” 2 Pe 1:19
Before, I did not know the way to salvation at all, though claiming to believe in God. After receiving the truth, however, I read the Bible over and over again until the Spirit and the Bride (Rev 22:17), who came as the Saviors of this age, surely rose in my heart. I gave thanks to God for shining the light of the truth in my dark heart and allowing me to see the way to heaven. I earnestly prayed with my sister that my mom too would be blessed.
At last, my mom came to the true God, and now she is joyfully heading toward heaven spreading before her eyes. Can there be anything more joyful than this?
There are still many people who don’t know the truth yet around us. I will diligently deliver the word of God to them so that they can clearly see the sure prophecies of the Bible.