Before I Met Jesus
I lived a life without meaning and hope. Though I grew up in a religious family, I had no peace in my heart. My soul was restless. I was looking for truth. I was looking for peace. I buried myself in philosophy and I stopped believing in God. Through my university days as a student and then as a lecturer, I argued there was no God. I was still a restless soul. I could not forgive people for their wrongs and worse still, I did not know what to do when I found the same wrongs in myself. I was growing into an angry young man.
How I Met Jesus
That was when I met Jesus Christ. I was in a church attending a gospel meeting. The preacher was praying for people who had bitterness and anger in their hearts. He asked them to stand. His eyes closed, he said , “There is a young man at the back who should be standing!” I looked back and there was no one else. It was me! But I did not stand.
Then He said, “If you do not stand, then I will have to come there and make you stand!” I still did not move. I told myself that he is talking to the Christians. The preacher then prayed. As he did, a man standing two rows in front of me just fell sideways into the laps of the people and his legs were dangling. I got up and ran to him and lifted his legs to rest on the adjacent chairs. And found myself standing! My heart was strangely warmed.
That night, I prayed in my living room:
“Jesus Christ, if you are really God,
Open my eyes, for I have been blind.
Open my ears, for I have been deaf.
Soften my heart, for it is like a stone.
For I want to come home.”
After I Met Jesus
Two weeks later, in my living room, He did open my eyes and ears and soften my heart. I had a visitation. It was like a flash back: I saw that wherever I had stood and denied Him, He said, “I loved you still!” That night, 22 November, 1984, I invited Jesus Christ into my heart as my Lord and Savior.
From then on, my heart felt peace like I never had before. I was at peace with God and at peace with myself. I felt joy in my heart. I found all my anger and bitterness and unforgiveness towards people melt away. I felt like I was a new person. I felt like I was breathing a new and fresh air. I had received a new life. All along I was looking for the truth but I never realized that Truth is a Person, the Person of Jesus Christ.
My life changed from a restless angry man to a man of peace. My students saw it. My colleagues saw it.
My family and friends saw the change. God is with me now. Jesus found me.
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