my Almighty God, my saviour, my Truth-teller, my Lover, and most of all, my Father.well how do i say this, i'm where am i today and i'm what i am today, is all because of Them, The Trinity ( God + Jesus+Holy Spirit).
It all dates back to August 2007. it was the first time i experienced God personally. i've been wanting to join christianity for 6years until God's perfect timing comes and one of my mentol, uncle Aaron is his name, came to me during a prayer meeting. he said to me:
" darrel, are u ready? are you ready to accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour?"
I was really excited. i replied even without a second hesitation. i replied:
"yes uncle, i've been wanting to join for a long long time." and God's presence is already flowing around the church.
i prayed with uncle Aaron. He lead me to the Lord. And the very night where i accepted christ, i saw Joy. Joy That Overflow from me and pour out from me to the other people in the church. i see people smiling because of me accepted christ. and i saw, her eyes was flowing with happy tears.
i couldn't understand back then, but for now, i know why. Why is everyone so happy for just because i accepted christ. The Joy that I obtained that day was true Joy. a Joy from God.
Joy,
Is something that we do not have as a teenager or even as a grown up adult most of the time. because Satan is trying very hard to take our joy away and in the mean time take our faith away from God. There are just too many things in this material world that could rob away our Joy. things that is in the flesh, things that can be seen, things that are temporily and things that is not from God.
everything that can be seen in this world is things that are temporary.
even science can prove it, isn't it ?
for instances,
plastics are hard to be dispose off completely, according to scientific explaination, it only takes a longer time to let the particles and the Ions of the plastic to be completely broken down and at last dispose off. temporary things.
not convince yet? i give u another one.
energy. can u see energy? can u smell? can u touch? No you can't. and according to science, energy is something that cannot be destroy but only change from one form to another.
this is what science had proven to us. things that can be seen is definitely temporary and the unseen is eternal.
God had said the same thing because, God has created science, God create physics, God created chemistry.
God created us, God says this life that we're living until now is something that is temporary and the road to heaven is something that is unseen, which is eternal
and you know what, happiness is a gift for everyone in this world. everyone deserve to be happy. from the new born baby to the hideous murderer, they all DESERVE the gift of Joy and happiness. you might be asking now, what in the world am i typing, how can a murderer deserve this gift of happiness from God. but i tell you, in God's eyes we're all the same, we're the children of God. we're the creation of God.
God loves the murderer just as he loves us for Jesus died on the cross for each and everyone who is walking on this earth 2000 years ago.
isn't it powerful ?
evil does not exist in this world. the word evil itself existed is to describe the absence of God's love. for a person to kill a person is obviously an evil act and yes an act that happened because of the absence of God's love in the person's life.
Romans 7: 15 says this
"[15] i do not understand what i do. For what i want to do i do not do, but for what i hate i do."
isn't it weird? why would you do something that yourself don't even understand. and what you want to do you don't do, but things that you hate to do, u do it.
Romans 7:20 says this
"[20] now if i do what i do not want to do, it is no longer i who do it, but it is the sin living in me that does it."
there is no such thing as killing for fun in this world. people are killing each other out there is because they are bound by sin. this is the result of the absence of God in their life. they don't obtain the same Joy that we have is all because Sin had stolen te happiness and joy away. Sin has let evil thoughts to sap in. Sin has rob away a normal person's life by directing the person to kill one another.
So now we are at a position where we can choose. choose to be happy or choose to walk against God's will and let satan rob away our happiness. the first step to regain our happiness is to walk right with God. Obidience and have faith in God is the key to unlock God's unlimited blessing. The fear of God can help us to walk right with Him. because this fear is out love and not from pure fear itself. we fear Him because we love him, just as we fear our dearest father. do we fear our father because of the sake of fear? or because it's out of the authority and love ?
The fear of God can cause us to have a better personality. He can cause our characteristic to rise up to serve him and his people, because we're the vessels that carries God's presence. God can only live in us if we're Holy and pure. we cannot expect God to live in us if we're sinning against him in the flesh. for our needs is real, our desires are real and the temptation from the devils are real.
for the fear of God is the only thing that can help us to overcome our flesh's desires. the fear of God is the only thing that can cause obedience to manifest in our daily life.
This message is truely strong and powerful. because i believe God ministered to me at the night that i type this message. he reminds me bout how important is the fear of God in our life. and how important it is is the need for us to be obedience towards God's Words and God Himself.
God wants us to be strong christians despite of our Age. if i'm DARE enough to be different, why can the other youths out there not do the same. Jesus doesn't need carnal christians. we need true warriors with a true heart for Him.
Teens and Youths,
today i want to challenge all of you. to walk right with God if u wan to unlock the door of happiness and blessing in your life. be obedience towards God's words and let the fear of God to rules against our daily flesh life is the ONLY KEY, take note, there is none other way, but this is the only and only way.
Darrel from Kampar UTAR. sharing this message which i shared in my youth group
I do pray that this will become a blessing to u guy's life
God bless.