Laboring with All His Strength; Precise and Exact; A Heart Like a Servant's;
Carrying On from Those Before and Opening the Way for Those After; A Laboring Foreman;
A Good Steward Who Gained by Sacrificing
My knowledge of Brother Wu Yucheng rests entirely upon his words, together with a few face-to-face fellowships. Though it was little by little, almost in fragments, yet within the flow of the ministry it could be framed into lines and surfaces.
I remember that my father once fellowshipped, mentioning how, regarding the burden of the construction funds for the Xinji Building and later the burden of the renovation funds for the meeting hall in Sanchong, he had fellowshipped with Brother Wu. After the fellowship, Brother Wu's handling was just right, and he grasped my father's fellowship perfectly; the result delighted my father exceedingly, and he kept praising how our brother truly "understood." That word "understand" left a deep impression on my heart at the time. And in the years that followed, every report of triumph in the Lord's recovery was all the more our comfort and encouragement.
Speaking of a chief pillar, I am reminded of the two pillars before the temple in the Old Testament, which speak of "God will establish" and "in it is strength." These two pillars declare to the whole universe—including mankind, Satan, and all the fallen angels—that Jehovah establishes, and that the strength is in the building.
My father used often to pray for Brother Wu's sickness and pain, and also mentioned that for Brother Wu to be able to serve the Lord like this while bearing sickness in his body should truly be our pattern. Such "laboring with all one's strength" I have only now come to deeply realize and know. I believe that Brother Wu's strength was that which he had in the building.
In a meeting and fellowship in 2018, I asked the brother, "How are you?" He told me that after the New Spring conference his body was overly fatigued, that he had gained eight or nine kilograms, that he had only recently recovered after being hospitalized, and so on…; then he went on to mention some of his earlier fellowship. I deeply sensed the brother's wholehearted exertion for the church, that he made no complaint because of sickness and pain. I thought of Darby's word, that the third heaven did not give Paul power; rather, it was needed to make him weak, and then the power came. Our weakness is precisely that we do not know how to be weak. Thank the Lord, the Lord's power was given to our brother!