It’s getting really near to the 4 June Memorial and a lot of press is showing what the people in HK are doing to keep this incident afresh in our heart. Very young colleagues yesterday were telling me they saw a book of Chen XiTong, the powerful former Mayor and Communist Party boss of Beijing has just been published and released. In this book Chen will probably confess how much he has not been part of the massacre and my colleague laughingly said publishing a book is too easy nowadays as no one really need to be responsible of what they say and what they proclaim. I have no concern about Chen’s positioning of himself whether he is innocent or guilty of being the lead of the cruel incident. The bigger thing is about if the truth being reported or not. My colleagues told me they were like 4 years old or have not even been born on 4 June 1989, and they asked me where I was during that very day and afterwards. I was super glad and feel privileged to be able to explain to them what I recall! They listen with the greatest interest and attention because I don’t think they have heard of that from someone they know at all (except their parents…not sure what they think). We aren’t the most political alert part of the population, but my colleagues just exclaimed why people couldn’t get real and admit what they have done. We have no idea how the China government could deny that just like they could never excuse Japan denying the Nanking Massacre decades ago. God clearly states that if we want to be forgiven, we need to repent and part of this repentance is definitely be true and real about what wrongs we have done, and not repeating the same doing. I am going to attend the 4 June memorial next Monday just for the hope that China would advance and improve in their mentality while their economy is blossoming like never, wish their hearts could be purified.
Daily Quote
and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity and say, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong and acted wickedly’2 Chronicles 6:37I pray to God that our country China could truly rise up as one of the biggest country amongst all not only with their economic power, but by giving people their natural rights such as freedom to speak, freedom to think and freedom to religion.
Postscript Quote
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld