By the grace of God, I have accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior and was baptized when I was fourteen years old in Form 1 of my middle school. After my baptism, I have been serving fervently in the youth groups of our church until I left Hong Kong to come to United States for college. When I was about to graduate from Form 5 in the middle school, out of four classes of about 160 students in one of the most prestigious middle schools in Hong Kong, I ranked about 62. The future seemed to be quite certain that after one year of Lower Form 6 in my school, I will be applying for college in United States where my brother graduated and lived. However, God had a different plan for me. Before my graduation from Form 5, all the students in Hong Kong will have to take a unified Hong Kong School Certificate Examination and the admission to Lower Form 6 will have to be based on the grades received from the examination.
When the results from the School Certificate Examination were posted, I found that I have not achieved A (Distinction) nor B (Credit) in any of the subjects which meant that I would not be automatically invited back to continue to study Form 6 of my school. At that time, I did not even try to beg to be readmitted to my school. However, when God closed one door in my life, He opened another door. I was admitted into Form 6 of another newly established school. The school was not a Christian school and had no Christian organization in the school. I began to realize why did God bring me there because I have the burden to start a Christian Fellowship there to spread the gospel and to help young Christians to grow. I shared my vision with a brother Robert who also attended the same school from my church and we have prayed about it. We then found two teachers in the school to be our counsellors. Together, we decided to apply to the school to start a Christian Fellowship. Miraculously, it was approved and we became part of the Inter-School Christian Fellowship (ISCF) and started meeting every week. (Robert retired as a Pastor in UK a few years ago.)
Even at my young age of eighteen, God has taught me the lesson of humility so that He can mold me and use me in whatever ways He wanted. From the human point of view, it seemed very unlikely that a student in the top 40% of his class from a very prestigious English-speaking school was not able to get even a B grade in English. It prepared me to accept layoffs in my career later on in life knowing full well that God will always have a better plan for me.
Praise the Lord!
