Testimonies of the Medical and Nursing Serving Ones

Brother Cai Wei: I serve as an attending physician of internal medicine at National Taiwan University Hospital, and I had the opportunity to care for Brother Wu's health over a long period. For nearly thirty years I accompanied him at close range through the storms and trials of his years, and I saw him pass through countless major illnesses—stroke, kidney transplant, bile duct obstruction, dialysis, myocardial infarction, suppuration of the abdominal wall, and more. Many times, in man's eyes, it seemed certain that he would die; even we doctors felt it was hopeless. Yet God has rich mercy, and for the need of His church He heard the prayers of all the saints, raising him from the dead again and again, miraculously bringing him back to health, and continuing to use our dear elder brother until the end of his course.

For many years he entrusted all the discomforts of his body to me. To tell the truth, he was not an obedient and cooperative patient. For I witnessed many times that, by a superhuman will, a firm faith, and resurrection power, he embraced his sick body and gave himself up for the church, not sparing himself at all—truly admirable. Even when his physical strength was at its weakest, he still stood up straight and pressed forward though swaying; such a striving spirit is rare in the world. Until the day he fell, he still had black hair and thick eyebrows, his eyes were not dim, his memory was superhuman, and his heart was still concerned for all the churches and the saints.

Let me give one recent testimony. Two weeks before he departed from us was the day of his regular follow-up visit. I had already seen his blood test report for that day in the consultation room, yet by six o'clock in the evening there was still no sign of him. So I gave him a call, and on the other end he answered: "How terrible! I rushed all the way from Taipei to Pingtung to visit a brother, and I completely forgot about my own clinic appointment." This was exactly the kind of man he was—one who knew only how to be poured out as a drink offering but not how to take a drink himself—living out before us the pattern of the God-man living. The following week, Sister Wu personally pushed him in in a wheelchair, and Brother Wu's body appeared very tired and labored. Oh, he truly regarded his own life as nothing! He was always willing to care for others yet neglected to spare himself, just as the apostle Paul most gladly spent for the sake of all—this is our dear elder brother. By God's abundant grace, he strove with all his might and, with a generous and open heart, finished the course measured out to him by the Lord. We will remember him forever.