Love Never Fails

Love Never Fails (1 Cor. 13:8)

Watchman Nee narrated in his book Sit, Walk, Stand,

A brother in South China had a rice field in the middle of the hill. In time of drought, he used a water-wheel, worked by a tread-mill, to lift water from the irrigation stream into his field. His neighbour had two fields below his, and, one night, made a breach in the dividing bank and drained off all his water. When the bother repaired the breach and pumped in more water his neighbour did the same thing again, and this was repeated three or four times. So, he consulted his brethren. ‘I have tried to be patient and not to retaliate,’ he said, ‘but is it right?’ After they had prayed together about it, one of them replied, ‘If we only try to do the right thing, surely we are very poor Christians. We have to do something more than what is right.’ The brother was much impressed. Next morning he pumped water for the two fields below, and in the afternoon he pumped water for his own field. After that the water stayed in his field. His neighbour was so amazed at his action that he began to inquire the reason, and in course of time he too became a Christian.

Similarly, Pastor Emeka Egwuchukwu narrated: 

“There is a woman I know, she is a believer and then there was this other woman, a neighbor, who for no reason disliked her (the believer). You know sometimes Satan can just move people. You’ve not done them any wrong but they just don’t like you. ‘Why must you be smiling?’ ‘Why must you be the way you are?’ And Satan can just move them. Every morning when the woman (believer) dresses to go to church. She (believer) was living downstairs, the other woman was living upstairs. She will just wash cloth and be on one side and be waiting for the christian woman on the balcony. Immediately she’s coming, she’ll pour the dirty water on her. The christian woman will go back inside and change her cloth. The other woman will stay outside and laugh and laugh and laugh. You know that kind of situation. I don’t know whether you’ve been driven to the wall like that. 

She kept on doing it and doing it and doing it, but this christian woman never for one day reacted. She will go in and change and go to church and she kept on being a good neighbor. Then it got to the day the woman got a better accommodation and needed to pack out. The woman who had been doing this was weeping, she kept on crying when she heard that this woman was leaving. She was crying. The woman never convicted her, as in talking to her. She never said anything like: ‘you’ve been dealing with me, God will deal with you too’. The woman never did that. She started weeping. She wept and wept and was telling this christian woman please I am sorry. I am sorry for all that I have done to you. I am sorry, please which church do you attend. I want to start attending that your church. And that was how the other woman got converted, without her opening her mouth any day to preach to her. But she just walked in love and walked in love, refusing to react and eventually this became the fruit of it. 

Halleluyah! Love Never Fails” (1 Cor. 13:8)

Source: https://storiesoffaithng.blogspot.com/2020/03/stories-of-faith-episode-50.html; https://www.otakada.org/watchman-nee-sit-walk-and-stand-with-emphasis-on-walk-true-story-of-a-brother-with-a-rice-farm/