The Local Church

The Major Change in My Being

I was born in a devout Christian family, starting from my grandparents' time until today. I am a third-generation Christian. My family has always been a blessed environment during the course of my growing up. When I was little, I was taught to love and to fear God. This I did and practiced, not necessarily because I really knew what I was doing, but because I simply obeyed what the older ones instructed. Although everything seemed objective and unrealistic at the time, deep within me there was always a longing and desire to love God and to know Him the way my parents and grandparents did. I tried so hard to be upright with God and man, this however only gave me endless frustration until I could not fake it any longer. The peak hit when I was in my junior year in college. My journey with the Lord came to a stale point where I just could not sense His presence inwardly. Outwardly I was struggling with my school work and whether or not I should continue with a major that I chose but did not like. I had no sense of direction of how I should proceed with my life.

At this point in time, a brother meeting with the local church invited me to a one-week Christian conference in Anaheim and wanted to know if I would sign up for such a gathering. I didn't care so much about Christian gatherings anymore because I grew up in an atmosphere of Christian meetings, but oh to go to the lovely west coast for a week of get-away from my anxious worries at school sounded attractive enough. I signed up for the conference intending to relax but little did I know that this conference would become a major turning point in my Christian life. I recall that I would come to each meeting expecting to fall asleep any moment, yet to my great surprise I found myself at the end of each meeting not only awakened and energized, but also in tears with a softened heart toward the Lord and toward all the believers. It was such a genuine and dynamic experience in my Christian walk with the Lord. The ministry in the local church led me directly into the presence of God. Ever since that time, my focus in life changed gradually from my interest to God's interest, which is God's economy (Ephesians 1:10). God's economy though it sounds foreign to many, simply refers to God's two-fold purpose in creating man to express Him and to represent Him by dispensing Himself richly into man (Genesis 1:27-28, Ephesians 5:18). I am thankful that the Lord enlightened me to see through this ministry that I need to give God the first place in my being rather than focusing everything on me, myself, and I. God is not only the Creator of this universe, He is even much more the life-giver to mankind. We can live a life that's meaningful and full of content.

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