but by Grace

A TRANSFORMED ME…

June 18, 2010

It has been a year since I last posted in my blog. I could think of a lot of reasons why, could be because I lost interest, or I got too busy. I don’t really remember now. BUT, I am back!

I am back because of a fire burning in me, a passion wanting to flow out from inside of me. I WANT TO SHARE AND WRITE ABOUT THEM…

So you might think what’s that?! or how’s that?! , well let me tell you my testimony. Well, here’s how…

Years ago, I was just like you. I wanted to finish my school. I wanted to earn money. I wanted to be happy. I wanted to enjoy life to the fullest. I would have a very hectic schedule almost everyday. I would go to work and I would meet up with friends. Everything was about fullfilling what I want in my life. Everything was about achieving my goals and desires for my life. I was very focused to be somebody because after all everyone else is trying to be somebody around me. I felt my pride and I felt I was special in my own right. I felt I was unique. I wanted the world. I was very into the world. It was all about success, pleasure and enjoynment. BUT … the more I crave for all these things, the  more I feel corrupted. I was being eaten by my goals and ambition in life. I was  being consumed by my desires to be successful. I felt my life is nothing but a wanting to be that person which I have been dreaming since I was young… a successful person. I got lost. I was just too proud. At one point I was an atheist. At one point I was a blasphemous. At one point I was very self-centered. At one point I lived a lustful life  …………… then suddenly I was just nothing.

I went into a tremendous struggle, a mutli-faceted struggle. My family broke down, I stopped schooling, my dreams got shattered away and I got lost. I was put in a situation no one would ever wish for. I was all alone. I was like a sheep lost in the wilderness who had to face lions, foxes and a whole lot of predators. I lost four years of my life wandering, searching, looking, struggling, wishful-thinking, regretting, and finding for the meaning of life. IT WAS NOTHING BUT BAD NEWS.

Little that I know of, there was a very interesting event that I would experience… I think of it now that after all there is a GOOD NEWS.  But I thought how about all the pains, hurts and wounds in my life. You don’t know what I have been to. The pains I had to bear. I was still reasoning, I was still somehow proud to reason out. But the GOOD NEWS is simply unbearable… It is contagious, It is  overwhelming, It is over-satisfying, It is more than I ever wanted. It was just too GOOD for a NEWS. It was too great. The greatest I thought. That NEWS was just too wonderful and too great that I indulged with it. I received it and I surrenderred to it. It was the NEWS of the LOVE OF GOD. Who am I, I thought not to acknowledge the LOVE of GOD. 

 YES, that’s right I acknowleged the LOVE of GOD in my life. I acknowledged and declared that He is my Lord and I am His servant.  It was so completing that my pains and hurts became love, care and compassion. It was so blessing that my self-centered righteousness and desires became a life of selfless service to the Lord. I am no longer alone. I am no longer a lost sheep for Jesus is my Shepherd now. 

From self-righteousness and from unrighteousness, now to God’s righteousness. 

This is the start of my life… a journey with God. 

 

 Amazing It was a transformation.

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Previous Comments

I always disagree with you on things about religion, but I have to admit this touched something in me. Maybe because I can see the amazing sincerity in this post. I’m happy that you found meaning in your life.

Posted by J at June 18, 2010, 10:07 am

Thank’s JJ. It’s just so wonderful telling how the Lord changed your life. :)

Posted by kaku13 at June 18, 2010, 5:02 pm

Very courageous of you to write all these. Let’s pray for the lost sheep, that they may be found. May GOD always be with you and your family.

Posted by Leslie at July 28, 2010, 9:15 pm

Les,

Thank you. God bless you. :)

Posted by netmeeting at July 28, 2010, 9:29 pm

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