14-08-2014
To live in North Korea or not to live?
It is really difficult for a typical Westerner, or an Oriental, to get inside the head of a North Korean citizen. What do you think day after day, while poverty looks you in the face? What goes through your mind while you watch your only television channel or read your only newspaper? Have these many years of brainwashing been content with whatever they see and hear?
Are you delighted to read that you have become friends with Russia and certain Middle Eastern nations that hate Israel and the West? Does it give you great joy to see your fearless leader visiting children’s homes and farms, as your grandfather used to do? Do you think that he really cares for all his subjects, as a father cares for his children?
Do you really cry with all your heart when one of your leaders dies? Do you enjoy visiting the constant public executions? Does it really sadden you to see dust fall on one of the Kims’ paintings that you are forced to hang in their tiny apartments?
Do you know that the loud explosions off the coast on a morning like today were Mr. Kim’s official greeting to the Pope of Rome? Do they even know that His Highness is visiting South Korea, and that NK’s version of His Highness is outraged by it and is firing rockets to protest?
And would they excuse it if they did?
We now know that there are a growing number of North Koreans who want to get out. They will die trying if possible. Are there US citizens in this situation? I haven’t heard of any. People who feel disgusted with our government or our way of life are free to go. But the Chinese can capture the North Koreans and send them back to prison or extermination.
Now, there are other North Koreans. I’ve heard of them, I think they exist. But they are very strange to my American thought processes. They want to stay. I must divide them into several categories, to have at least some peace about it:
1. Totally brain dead people who have succumbed to the eternal lies coming out of Pyongyang. They really believe that North Korea is paradise. Leaving would be torture for them.
2. People emotionally tied. They were born here, they grew up here, the mountains and the rivers and the fields are part of who they are. How can they leave their homeland? If things go wrong here, they could be worse elsewhere.
3. The third class, I also met in Romania.
Romania is the only other country that I have been so deeply involved with. In my youth, it was my foolish idea to think that everyone in the world who had any difficulty should be free to come to America and, if given a chance, they would rush to do so.
But my summers there in the 1980s discovered this other class of people, all Christians. When I enthusiastically told them the ways they could come to the United States of A., they refused. Of course, Ceausescu’s Romania was tough. Of course they could die. Of course they could go to prison. Sure, some had escaped, and God bless them! But I’m leaving? Are you kidding? If I go and the church goes, who will bring Christ to Romania?
This same race of heroes is alive and well in North Korea. Infectious, this Christ cross thing. It gets inside of you, and all you think about is how can I get the Gospel out? How can I tell my friends? What will happen to my nation if they do not know Christ?
Yes, in fact I have heard, even met, of North Korean citizens whose goal in life is not to remain in a relatively comfortable South Korea, to which they have managed to escape, but to return and give the Gospel to their homeland, whatever it is. be the moment. cost.
Yes, we want to ignore them with a “Bravo” and a “Blessed One”, and “Jesus surely must love you”, until we realize that his decision is one that consistently fits the biblical framework, also known as Jesus. Without a cross, he is not worthy of Jesus. That’s what he said.
This should help your prayer life regarding North Korea (and yourself). Like you, I want to pray, God, LEAVE THEM (God, get me out!). Yeah I know you’re not supposed to yell at God, but that’s how I feel. So hurt, so hurt, that they (I) must stay in this prison, and some in the jails within the prison.
After all, we say, the Israelites had to leave, and then Egypt could be judged! Get every last North Korean out of that terrible land that is so ready for judgment, and then let judgment fall!
It sounds more like James and John than Jesus. “Will we send fire from heaven, Lord, like Elijah?”
But, but what about Noah and Lot? We beg you. They had to get them out, then God’s wrath could fall! True, but isn’t that scene more like the coming of Christ / rapture, when the Lord will gather His own from all corners of heaven and earth just before sending out the punishments accumulated for centuries?
No, it is probably better to think of Wurmbrand from Romania. 14 years in those horrible prisons. But his life continues to multiply the life and blessings of Jesus throughout the world.
The commandment for us is “Remember the prisoners”, not release them. I hate writing that, saying that, thinking that. But deep down I know it’s true. Whatever they or we are going through because of Jesus, yes, it will eventually pass, yes, eventually there will be deliverance and deliverance and escape, but while it is happening, it is doing immeasurable good for them, for us and for those of us. surround. “Let patience have its perfect work,” and one day the world will see that even the worst tactics of the enemies have been adequate to bring glory to God.
So to live in North Korea or not to live? Pray for their deliverance? Because of its resistance? Or that God’s plan is perfectly carried out in them and in us?
