I was born to parents who raised me up to believe in the traditional religions, and to follow ancestral worship and false gods. But during my childhood the gospel of God concerning His Son (Lord Jesus Christ), started reaching remote areas where we lived. Eventually, an aunt became a Christian, renounced traditional religions, worship of idols and started trusting in and following the Christ.
And the Lord used her to witness to us, telling us about how God sent His son to save and redeem sinners. This greatly disrupted everything parents believed and taught us. Nevertheless, they did not prevent her taking us to church and hear the preaching of God’s word. By the time I had become a young adult, the more I went to hear God’s word, the more I became convinced of the true God and His gospel.
I kept remembering about God’s judgement to come, heaven or hell questions, and that God wills to save and redeem sinners through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I was a sinner through and through and in need of God’s salvation. The word of God had taken hold of my heart, and I believed the gospel. By grace and mercies, God granted me repentance and faith to believe in Christ Jesus my own Lord and eternal Saviour. I started trusting in the Lord, calling on his name and seeking him. I found peace with God and I wanted to know more about Him and to grow in the Christian faith.
Many years later, I found myself changing city in search of work. There was a period when I failed to trust God. I remember getting mixed up with the wrong church movements i.e., those pushing the “prosperity-type gospel”. I got carried with this for some time, and initially thought they are Christians. My fellowship with these hurt me in so many ways: causing me to doubt and despair of Christianity itself.
The prosperity-gospel church movement is strewn in self-seeking, man’s glory, sugar-coated teaching, manipulation and deceit. The results are hypocrisies, false profession, and lukewarmness. But the Lord remained faithful. He did not stop correcting, chastising, warning me about these errors and reminding me about Christ. I had so many troubles and I lost so much because of the backsliding. I could not continue this way anymore, and the guilt of straying away from God who so loved me was so unbearable.
I was tired of nagging and guilty conscience and sought the Lord in repentance from these hypocrisies and backsliding. God enabled me to see the end of prosperity-type gospel, end of self-seeking and backsliding. I don’t want any more of these. All I want is Christ Jesus my Lord and Saviour. To rest in Him and trust in Him and by Him totally surrendered to God. By grace, God restored me and I started enjoying fellowship with Him.
And I sought to be in fellowship with a true Christian church, where I would be nurtured by the precious word of God and the faith of Christ. I found and joined one in 2013 and continued to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord. I am trusting and resting in the Lord, and knowing that God is sovereign over all, and to depend on Him alone. Truly, the only way to be happy in God is to trust and obey Him. God is faithful and He continues to conform me to the image of His Son. I want to live the all of my life knowing and serving the Lord Jesus Christ my Saviour by the power of the Holy Spirit and the word of God.
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- Men in the Bible: A Man of Considerable Goodwill
- The Myth of Omnipresence (1): The 5 Places God Always Is
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- Great Truths Adults Learned
- I Passed a Professional Exam and Got a Job After 10 Years
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