福音见证 - 变水为酒(二）

Lucky for me, I found the true life at a young age.  Well, when I'm young, I don't really care about these things. What I only think about when I'm young is to run around, watch tv, play games, buy toys. But when I grow up, I start to have the ability to think for myself and I start wanting to enjoy myself. I was really into games and smartphones that time and if I remembered clearly Samsung S3 just came out in 2012 and my father brought the S3 home. When I saw it, I really wanted it so bad. It is really thin, had nice graphics and had a lot of functions. I was willing to use my savings to buy from my father. So after discussion with my father, my father gave me some work so if I finished that, I can have the phone. So around August of 2012, I got the phone.

    I was over the moon when I had that phone. The first thing I did was to download games on the phone. I downloaded a famous game called dungeon hunter 5 and I keep playing it. It was fun and I keep playing it day and night. But after playing it for a few months, I got tired of it already. I downloaded other games like fifa and start finding all the series to watch. It was very fun at first but I keep on wanting to watch different kinds of series after one series ended. After I watch every series, I condemned myself. I felt the feeling of regret that I kind of waste a day just watching series, and not do any other thing. Then, something came into my mind, do I want to always go on like this, watching series from morning to afternoon to night, sometimes don’t even care about my meals, exercise, sleep? Then I realize that this is not the way to live on. There must be something else that is more beneficial, more purposeful.

     I was raised in a Christian family and since I'm young, my parents are very strict in nurturing us on our studies, our character and our love for the Lord. So there are a lot of trainings in my Christian life. There is one month training after form 3, three month training after form 5, and also young adult training before or during university. My parents will always ask me to go as it is good for me and I can learn about God, Bible, character. In the 3 month training, all of us brothers will do everything together. We wash our clothes, eat lunch, exercise, pursue the Lord together and that feeling is very fun. That feeling is better than watching series at home. I feel really joyful inside, because I enjoy the Lord everyday with the brothers. Deep in us we have a spirit and God created us with a spirit to contain Him and be truly satisfied. This enjoyment is really different from being satisfied with games or movies. You just feel very happy within and you don't feel worried about anything. So, friends, if you don't believe me, why not try for yourself what this enjoyment feels like? Just come join us and open to the Lord then slowly I can assure you that you will taste this satisfaction that you never taste before. What is this feeling actually? This feeling is just the change of death to life. The Lord is our true life.  –益

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