Sadhu Sundar
Singh: A Biography of the Remarkable Indian Disciple of Jesus Christ (1992)
by Phyllis Thompson
by Phyllis Thompson
What a man! What a book!
Biography is one of my favourite genres, this one is superb! Dr. Thomas Chung
came to my office one day, and said, "You
got to read this biography [together with a biography of John Sung]. You gonna
love it!" I've read it, and I love it. This week is very heavy for me,
lots of issues burden by heart, mind and emotion. The life of Sundar Singh is
like a God-given encouragement and inspiration for me to not give up on life
and ministry and to turn my eyes once again upon Jesus Christ, the Lord.
I'm gonna make it a must
to read this biography (and those of Charles H. Spurgeon’s, my favourite) every
year. Rev Dr. Hwa Yung, bishop of the Methodist Church in Malaysia, writes,
"Sundar Singh... read the Bible
through Asian eyes, took the supernatural and the Holy Spirit seriously, and
the rest followed. His ministry was marked by regular contact with the
spiritual realm through visions, angelic encounters and the miraculous."
I will not write a lengthy
summary of this book, for I think the Sadhu's life and ministry is too amazing
to describe in less than 1,000 words. All I can say for now is, read, search
and discover about this man of God. Not so much of knowing him per se, but so
that by knowing him you may know the God of Sadhu Sundar Singh, Jesus Christ
the Lord.
Before the mysterious
disappearance of Sadhu, he quoted Acts 20:24 to his family and friends, as a
summary of his mission: "I consider my life as worth nothing to
myself, in order to finish my mission and the ministry that I received from the
Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God."
Amen :)
THINK BIG.
START SMALL. GO DEEP.
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