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How I Got Saved! Written By TL |
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For all flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. (1 Peter 1:24-25) Praise the Lord! I can testify that I was saved through the influence of the Word, the Bible, and through my conscience being touched by the Lord Himself through the testimony of other people.
I was raised up in a quite better-off environment. My parents were pretty rich, and my family life was very good, and I never lacked anything. My friends usually were jealous of me because I had everything. I was really proud of it. However, I didn't know what to do with it. Because my life was miserable. I didn't realize this until I went into a lot of undesirable things when I was in high school.
And how I came to know the Word is this: I moved into a house with my family, and somehow under my bed I find a New Testament. Praise the Lord, I have no knowledge who put it there, but there was a Bible there. I never read it, but I knew it was there. And one night I found it; I put it back. And that Bible stayed with me until we moved into another home, and I carried the Bible along. But I never read it. But I knew it was the New Testament.
But my impression was that a Christian was a cheap creature on this earth. I always despise them because they only beg for money.
Because I had that impression of the missionaries. I can never believe their life style. One day the missionary came to my house to preach gospel. I told my father, "Shut the door!" He didn't want to, so I slammed the door! I was in junior high.
But somehow I had some contact with the Word of God. When I was in high school, I began to learn something about English. I tried to read English newspaper. I could not understand, so I somehow found a Bible which is English and Chinese together interlinear. Praise the Lord, Chinese-English interlinear Bible New Testament. And I found out it's easy to read English there. I was learning typing, and I was reading the Bible at the same time in English because I have Chinese alongside to help me to understand.
But my life was going down, even though I was reading the Bible pages. But the effect of the Word was there. I began to realize something happened in my life because the things I did caused me to feel more empty inside. When I was a sophomore in college, one summer I went to a far away place. I was in a factory, and there was a Christian there. One afternoon, he was preaching gospel to one of a group of people. And I was mad at him. I heard him preach gospel. I told him to the face, "God is not real."
And he turned around, and very kindly says, "Are you really sure?" And when he said that, my conscience was pricked. I realized that I was not sure. My accusation caused me to realize I was not real. Praise the Lord, although I didn't know what it was, but I know something within me had some reaction toward God.
In my third year of college, one brother invited me to the gospel meeting. He invited me many times before. I never went. I promised. I never went. I promised. I never went. Until one night I was willing to go with him for some reason. I went to the meeting. I sat through the meeting. I left, went back to my room in the dormitory. But he and another Christian chased after me to my bedroom. It was 9:00 at night and they sit down one here and one here. They say, "You should pray." They didn't say anything. I didn't remember the gospel. But they say, "You should pray to God." That 's the first time in my life I feel the real struggling inside. What should I do? I feel the real uneasiness because I realized their life is real. And also on the other hand, inwardly I realize there's another force trying to pull me away from hearing the gospel. I realized the struggling inside. And I struggled for three whole hours until 12:00 at night. I was not able to open my mouth. They only sit by me saying, "Why don't you pray?" They have said nothing. They just say, "Why don't you pray?" And I was not able to pray because of the work of evil ones in my heart trying to pull my heart away.
Until 12:00 midnight the Lord broke through! I open my mouth and say, "Lord!" That kind of real crying from inside, from within my heart, really brought salvation to my heart. Immediately I sensed a real peace in my heart. My friend jumped up from his bed.
He was so joyful, and I was so joyful. They left without me because they were so happy, and I went to sleep without them. I had the first night's wonderful sleep for a long, long time.
The second morning when I woke up, there was a clear sky in my heart to serve the Lord; to follow the Lord was my way. I don't know, it's not from anybody told me, but something from the Word of the Lord. I remember the Word of the Lord and the salvation of the Lord came into my life and caused me to realize my life belonged to Jesus Christ now. Because I have such a clear sense inside, I need to follow Jesus! Hallelujah! He's been keeping me until today. I can testify the grace of the Lord is so enjoyable. I really can testify it's the highest thing to give my life to have fellowship with the Christians to know the Lord Himself.
I can testify my experience of the salvation is not superficial, it is something real, and I can testify it with my life. The testimony of the Lord within my heart gave me such a strong sensation at the moment of my salvation. It was so strong that it keeps me going until today. Praise the Lord!
TL tim at churchindetroit.org |
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