When I was in my first year of College, I felt quite lonely and empty. It was a time of transition for me into a new environment. A lot of the friends I had in high school transferred to different Colleges. It was a time when I was spiritually thirsty, searching for the truth. Even though I grew up...
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When I was in my first year of College, I felt quite lonely and empty. It was a time of transition for me into a new environment. A lot of the friends I had in high school transferred to different Colleges. It was a time when I was spiritually thirsty, searching for the truth. Even though I grew up in a God believing family, I only believed and accepted because I believed in my parents and I did not know anything else. I accepted with childlike faith. However, towards the end of high school, I started thinking about it more deeply.
Does God really exist?
If he exists, how come I don't experience his presence?
What is the purpose of life?
What does it mean to believe in God and how does that change my life?
Even though I went to Church every week for many years, it didn't really occur to me how differently I should live as a believer.
So I prayed to God. "God if you exist, please let me know and show me so that I can believe. If you really exist, please let me meet some good Christian friends, please let me to learn more about you"
2 weeks later, as I was rushing to class, two missionaries approached me.
They asked me, "Are you Christian?"
I was shocked, I answered "yes, how did you know?"
They asked again, "Do you want to do bible study?"
I was even more shocked again "how do you know?"
Those two missionaries didn't know, but God had prepared them to meet me, and that is how God has worked through them to answer my prayer.
From that day on, I scheduled to do bible studies with them. One by one, the word came to me so deeply. It began to answer all the questions that I had in my heart. God was revealing his presence to me one by one. It came to me as deep grace, and I came to know his love. Even though it was not some supernatural event that came to prove God's existence, rather it came as a deep revelation that spoke to my heart, and proved his love for me, that he cared for me. He revealed things that my heart was longing and searching for. That is why my faith is now deeper, and I believe in God with all my heart. It is undeniable to me the existence of God. To others they cannot see that faith and they cannot believe, because it came to me as my personal faith experience.
I believe that for those who truly search and long for with earnest heart, God comes to them and answers their prayers. The truth I believe is in God's word, made manifest in the Bible. My journey of faith is now only beginning^^
Amen!
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