Life Is The Song

Currently, I’m 16 Christian, baptized, loving God and loving life. I wasn’t always like this. I used to be everything that people would classify as a “bad kid”. In short, I wasn’t a Christian. I grew up in a semi Christian family, mom and sister were the “Christians” in my family, me and my dad weren’t. Although I went to church and all, I never read the bible, I had one because well I wanted one for the sake of having one. I didnt have a youth group, and I would play games on my iPod all though Sunday service. At home I would have constant fights with my father and my family never had an amazing relationship, if one at all. This was around 4 years ago.

About three years back, fresh out of middle school, God brought me to a youth group called Youth Lighthouse at the church I attended on Sunday’s. I found a great group of friends there (one I didn’t have at school) it was, for a while, my real family. From that point on I slowly, very slowly, I’m talking years here, warmed up to God. 2009 was the first year I attending a youth camp, a Christian retreat. It was called amplify and it was focused on amplifying Gods love. There God gave me a passion to worship. I was on a spiritual high after camp but that died down once school started and everything went back to normal.
Things went by fast and well I improved but not by a lot. I was still ungodly, not praying, reading the bible etc. 

Fast forward a year. Summer 2010. The pivotal point in not only my life on earth, but in my relationship with God. My parents asked me if I wanted to come to a family friends baptismal in a surrey church. I though nah it’s too far I’ll stay home and watch movies online or something. But there was something nagging inside me and I didn’t know it was God pushing me to go. In the end I went, I arrived there and this lady asked me if it was my first time, I said yes and she led me to the youth group they had on sundays. I sat alone in the end of the row with this big guy in front of me. A family friend’s mother came in and said to the big guy, hey why aren’t you talking to Jeff? He turned around and I realized he was a friend of mine, old and big but a friend non the less. (I also had a friend there, his brother was being baptized.) this older friend invited me to sit with him and at the end, they were having registration for a summer camp (a Christian retreat) Tony gave me and my friend a form and made us attend. I didn’t know why I did, I didn’t know anyone there but God pushed me to go. It was the best decision I have ever made in my life. At that camp I met a girl. 

This girl wasn’t just any random girl you meet on the street. I can honestly say she was from God. I didn’t know that at the time. I fell for her, all lovey dovey. In a sense it was mutual. We started off as just normal friends. After a while we became a lot closer. We would talk constantly and at one point, we had a talk and we decided to put God first in our relationship. It wasn’t anything serious at first but I’ll get to that in a bit. Near the end of May into July God brought my mother to this girl’s church. I was overjoyed that I would be able to see her every week but when I did, it wasn’t the same because we had already fallen apart after 8 months. And for the next 4 months we barely talked. I missed her like crazy and I found a sort of replacement for her that didn’t last long. During that time, we both fell away from God. We stopped doing devotions, and just fell away. Before that we would write letters to each other with bible verses and chatting about God and everything, along with over 500 emails. In those four months it was torture for me. I lost my direction with God and I didn’t want it back. I went though exams without God or her. It was extremely tough. 

 
Here’s where God touched us. Summer camp 2011, we both really didn’t want to go for somewhat of the same reason but God brought us there. The first few days were separated even though we were on the same boat to the island. But the last day. Oh man. God moved I ways you cannot imagine. I had all sorts of conflicts with my father. No relationship at all. I had four leaders pray over me for what felt like an eternity. I cried my eyes dry that night. That night. Though God my father, I forgave my earthly father. After the prayer I was numb and walked for a drink. It was then that she approached me and it was like a spark on hay. We started talking. God helped us fix everything. We talked until around 3am, lying outside on the grass staring at the beautiful starts God put in the sky. And with that our relationship was back. Just like that. God brought us back. 

This relationship isn’t your typical couple. We are definitely more than friends. This relationship was a triangle. God on top, and me and her making the other points. We put God first in our relationship and by Gods love he brought us back. She was and is my rock to this earth. She was always there for me encouraging me to do my devotionals, praying for me, telling me to keep on trusting God. I can’t explain what we had but it was amazing. More than I could ever ask for. I used an analogy of a balloon. She was the rock that tied me to this earth and God was the tether in heaven. If either one was gone I would fly up and pop in the atmosphere or sink to the ground and deflate. But the amazing thing is. My rock came back. Holding me to this earth again and I have God to thank for that. It is truly by his grace that I could have this relationship back again, this time, with more of God than ever.

The next day we were departing camp after lunch and well we had a baptismal service were I was baptized. In the Sailish Sea, Indian arm, August 30^th 2011.

After camp we reconnected like crazy. God was in basically every single one of our conversations. She introduced a book called Crazy Love by Francis Chan to me and we decided to read it together. It is a great book to read, very amazing and touching book. But anyways, we started to do devotionals again, and one night I will remember for a long time, is when we did our devotionals together, over facetime. After the call I was like wow, God, this is amazing, truly amazing. I want more of this.

Now? I LOVE God. I TRUST God. I want to give all my life to God. At home ive been seeing changes, my relationship with my father is amazing. We’ve started talking and bonding. After years and years of praying about this, God has answered. He has given me a relationship with my earthly father and this means so much to me.

Me and my friend want to use our special relationship to spread Gods love in our communities, we want to show everyone how amazing Gods love is. God is continuing to do work in my life.

We shared one verse. 1^st Corinthians 13: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. ⁸ Love never fails.

These verses stuck out to me in my walk with God. I will never leave you nor forsake you – Joshua 1:5. Trust in God – John 14:1. And The Lord will fight for you, you need only be still – Exodus 14:14

So yea this is my first written testimony J

On a side note, I want to thank God immensely for my amazing sister. She has been there for me at home, comforting me when the family was fighting. I am internally thankful for God to put an amazing sister in my life. I love my sister with all my heart.

To wrap it up, never think something is impossible because with God everything is possible. Everything in life has a reason, God will show it to us when the time is right. Always keep the faith.

PRAISE THE LORD!