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This is not just another new book with a riveting read about how a life was changed by Christ. Vivien Quahe-Seah Mei Lin didn't ask for God only to transform and renew her, she actually surrendered her life to Him. As a result, her message in these pages, born out of an obedience which involved sacrifice and suffering for His name's sake, will touch many lives that will in turn, go on to bear much fruit. I know I can bet on this. Following in the footsteps of Jesus, she became broken bread and poured out wine for God when she passed away on December 14 2002, after a four-and-a-half year battle with cancer. "Don't forget to put my filofax in my coffin so that I can always remember what I've got to do. Hee-hee! I'm just joking." This is what Viv whom I've known for 28 years had uttered to me a few hours before she went home to be with Jesus. Of course she'd thought she was only joking; but if you judge her by her old nature, she really wasn't. Even when we were only undergrads singing together in the choir, Viv already had a reputation for being what I would call a 'fixer'. People always sought her out when they were in a fix because she would inevitably find the missing key to get them out of it. When she joined the law profession, as her parents wished, instead of following her heart's desires to work as a hotelier, she flourished and became a veritable superwoman. I can do everything through him who gives me strength is what it says in Philippians 4:13. And so Viv did until, out of the blue, cruel cancer strick
The bows of the warrior are broken he those who stumbled are armed with strength. 1 Samuel 2.4.
Until I spent the last 10 days of Vivs life with her last December working on this book, I've always secretly harboured the thought that there must be an oxymoron throughout the Bible. How can brokenness ever be strength? But after witnessing the warrior-like spiritual strength shining through Viv in spite of her cancer-broken body, I now realise that it was the only missing ingredient to her life which had always been lived for others, if not for God. When she finally accepted the frailty and limits of her own human strength and came to grips with the ultimate reality that she could do nothing without God, what was left of her physical life on earth truly reverberated with supernatural ability, humility and grace. With Viv's physical brokenness came the absolute freedom spiritually, to be a slave to Christ. It is my personal belief that she was not supernaturally healed because she'd stopped praying as fervently for herself as she was spent for others, especially lost souls, as the bondslave of Jesus.
ISBN: 9789810500962
