“They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore you did not desert them” – Nehemiah 9:17
In November 2012, in the middle of an eastern Chinese city's new main road, rising incongruously from a huge circle in the freshly laid pavement, was a five-story row house with ragged edges. This was the home of the duck farmer who said "no."
Luo Baogen and his wife were the lone holdouts from a neighborhood that was demolished to make way for the main thoroughfare heading to a newly built railway station on the outskirts of the city of Wenling in Zhejiang province.
For weeks Luo and his wife held out after completion of the road, welcoming foreign journalists to their bizarre home in the middle of a highway. But in December, Luo finally relented from his stubbornness and consented to move. The home was demolished soon after.
God’s love is stronger than our stubbornness. Today in prayer, praise the Lord that He loves us despite our stubbornness and is gracious and compassionate, desiring all people to come to Jesus for forgiveness.
“There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.” - Plato
God’s Word: “But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.” – Romans 2:5
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