In my early teenage years, I started to ponder on many difficult questions about the world and our existence and if there is any God out there who created us. At the time I had never heard the true gospel. I have a Catholic family background and I attended a majority Muslim school and so that influenced me to believe that God is someone we are supposed to win over through our works.
I knew nothing of salvation through faith alone. I would have probably described myself as agnostic although I certainly lived my life as if there is no God. I lived solely for my own pleasures and with little regard for others because my heart was not right with God.
With time I started to see a lot more evil around me. It became apparent that the world was filled with hate, selfishness, and sexual immorality. Although I didn’t believe in God at that time, I knew that this wasn’t what I wanted the world to be like and so I began to search for answers. At first, I believed we could create a better world through our own efforts, as I didn’t see that sin is inherent to our nature and I always blamed others for everything that’s wrong in the world because I didn’t know of my own need to repent before God and that I was a sinner just like everyone else.
It wasn’t until a few years later that I first started to come across Christian preaching. I have received leaflets on the streets on a few occasions and seemingly by chance I was finding online sermons when I was browsing the internet and so I started to hear things which I never knew were part of the Christian faith. Mostly about Jesus’s second coming and how he would judge the world and establish his kingdom here on Earth. I was really intrigued by the idea that there could be ultimate justice in the world and so I decided to get a Bible and read it for myself.
I started with the book of Revelation to better understand what was being preached to me and although I didn’t understand most of its meaning and symbolism, I was nonetheless fascinated by the fact that something like this was in the Bible. After that I started to read the Gospels as I wanted to know about the life of Jesus. This was a big turning point for me as this is when I first truly understood why Christ came and died on the cross for our sins and why this was necessary to redeem us. This is the first time I believed that the God in the bible is good, and I realised that I am also a sinner in God’s eyes.
Although I was really impacted by what I read it was difficult for me to fully accept it as the true word of God. I was unwilling to believe something that I couldn’t fully comprehend, and I didn’t want to commit to something that I wasn’t sure was really the truth. Although with time the guilt of my sin became too much to bear, and I became convinced that I needed Christ in my life and that he was my only hope for salvation.
This is when I prayed and placed all my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and pledged to follow him for the rest of my life. From that moment my life changed, and I felt peace like I never felt it before and most of my worry about worldly things has vanished since I know that God is in control, and I am now one of his servants. To this day I struggle with some of my sins. I have fallen many times since I was saved by the grace of God, but he has never abandoned me, and I know that he will be with me until the very end.
Try God.
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