Kristiano :: Testimony 3

Uniting Filipino Christian Youth

JIREH BELTEJAR

dimples_jireh@yahoo.com

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To Your Friends

There's not enough space to tell you all the times God has been there, strengthening, guiding, healing, comforting, encouraging, teaching, and even chastising me. He's my Abba Father and Savior. Since I have the tendency to get long-winded, I'll just say that, since I got on my knees at midnight, May 4, 2007, He's never left my side.

That night, I truly felt His very presence next to me, His hand on my shoulder. I knew, without a doubt, that He was there, and He was living in me. He made my whole life come alive. People will make fun of my experience, but you know what? It's MY EXPERIENCE, and they can't take that away. There's no way you can make others experience what you've experienced unless they go through it too. I can tell you how it feels to climb 300 steps to the top of a rock formation and see for miles around. But, unless you do it, you can't even imagine what it's like. I'm good in writing, but I'm not even good enough to describe that. You have to experience it yourself, if you want to know what it's like. I've never been into skydiving, but people tell me that it's a thrilling experience. I'll never know what that's like unless I do it.

So, don't let anyone make your experiences with God into something that's questionable, putting it down to emotionalism or wishful thinking. It's not weakness or an inability to deal with reality. This is reality. Living it out every day, in everything we say and do. Okay, I'm getting long-winded again. It happens a lot when I talk about Him. He's taken something that was broken and made it whole. He forgave me for all the rottenness that was in me and made me a whole new person. He took someone who was a liar, drunk and druggie and made her into someone who gave it all to Him, in exchange for a more wonderful life. Yes, I do thank God for his endless unconditional love. He's blessed me more than I can say.