Christian Who Returns Lost Wallet to Owner Wins Praise, Shaanxi

Lv Laihu(left)received the pennant from the hand of Zhen(right), the owner, in Shilipu Church
Lv Laihu(left)received the pennant from the hand of Zhen(right), the owner, in Shilipu Church (photo: CCD contributor: Zheng Zhikui)
By CCD contributor: Zheng ZhikuiSeptember 13th, 2016

It was a normal evening for Mr. Zhen on August 31, 2016 when he and his friends had dinner together in Baoji, Shaanxi. 

A friend got drunk and Zhen sent him into a taxi, unfortunately losing his wallet in the process. Inside it were cash worth 5100 yuan, a key, his ID card and nine UnionPay cards.

Zhen went back to work, but didn't realize he had lost his wallet until the second day. It might be very troublesome to report the loss of ID card. 

He looked at all the places he went to yesterday for two days and found nothing. He said that he could not eat or sleep and was stuck in anxiety. 

But Lv Laihu, who was on duty in Shilipu Church in that afternoon and ended his chorus rehearsal that evening, just walked out from the church with an elder at around 9:30 pm. 

The elder got on the bus and the exhausted brother rode slowly on a bicycle. Upon the crossroad near a hotel, he was seemingly obstructed by something. 

Getting off the bike, he saw a black wallet under the streetlight. There was dozens of one-hundred-yuan bills in it.

He looked around, seeking to find the owner, while there were no pedestrian nearby and few cars passing by.

He waited on and on and nobody came after half an hour passed. Eventually, he decided to come to the elder for a way to find the owner. 

They discussed that the owner who should be very anxious at that moment must be found within that night. So they got on the taxi and came to the owner's home according to the information Zhen's ID card provided. They rang the doorbell and knocked the door again and again but got no response.

As a result, they had to hand over the money and wallet to the local police station. The procedure was done at 1:50am on September 1. 

The third day Zhen received a call from the police to claim the lost wallet. Unbelievably, he accepted the good news until he got the lost item back. 

Later on September 3, Zhen came to Shilipu Church to look for the kindhearted man who happened to be duty that time. He shook hands with Lv, saying, "Thank you, thank you very much. I might have suffered greatly if you didn't pick up my wallet. You who believe in Christ are good." The owner also sent a pennant to Lv to reward him of his good deed. Meanwhile, the passing people praised Lv as a good son of God, a model of Christian and a practitioner of Christianity.

When asked about what made him not pocket the money and what power or faith supported him to find the owner that night in an interview, Lv answered, "Lord told me to do this. The tenth of the Ten Commandments says that you shall not covet anything that belongs to other. It is the strong faith in the Lord for several years that gave me strength to find ways to return it to the owner."

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