CALL SERVING
There is a young boy who is so unique in the journey of his life. Yes! unique! why unique? Because there is inclusion of God in this young man's life. He is a very devout and faithful child of God. Born in a Christian home, educated to remain diligent to the Church and must continue to do the Word of God. The child grows and continues to grow older. But the wrong societal association came to him. He is trapped by various sins. It could be said of any sin he ever did. Yes, it may seem excessive. But this illustrates that he is completely distant from God who once had a spiritual journey in his life.
Once this child had such a heavy pressure and made him feel the need to bend his knees. For nothing can help except that of the Lord Jesus. In his struggle, he experienced too much God's help in his life. At night when he prayed he felt so strongly the presence of God. It is not the first, but he always feels strong in the presence of God in his prayers even during his days of activity. God reminds us of God's call for this child. He then remembered when he was still sma or as a child. The pastor is the ideal of him who never lost. When he was half asleep (meaning a little conscious), this child brought God somewhere a beautiful place. There is a garden, a clear river like glass, and finally stops in an unattended field. Many wild grasses are there. Then this young man confused what he meant, and the passage of time this young man to forget this incident. It is this story that the Lord Jesus reminded of this young man and finally he was aware of the call of God in his life. He must work in the abandoned fields of God. But this young man hesitated. In the end he decided to ask for a sign to God. God answered the sign. And this young man decided to live according to God's way. The journey of faith that is not easy, sometimes he fell into sin, but he still always hold on to God. At this time he has entered one of the Theological schools and he also serves God with joy. So good God. CV
LIFE IS CHRIST OFF IS ADVANTAGES
Precisely in the year 2014 ago where I was first to be somewhere and for me the place is very strange, because I never dreamed would be in that place. Want to know where it is? surely also my friends would love to know the place tersbut, to me that place where the name of an Imelda experiencing the first encounter with the extraordinary personal figure of "Jesus Christ", and the place is the College of Theology Torsina Surakarta (STT TORSINA) located in the middle of the village Gondang Rejo Karanganyar district. this place is safe and comfortable for everyone who want to be formed his character to be a better person., Ok immediately wrote ,,, when I first was in this place and the first time I follow the course I do not know anything and do not know what should I do, because I never aspire to be a minister even I never know what the pastor is like? and coincidentally on the first day of that time I attended the lecture with the subject of Education delivered by the lecturer of Bpk. Pdt. Timothy. I was following the course honestly yes hanay just follow my friends because I really do not understand. On the first day of lectures lecturers who teach us first give the assignment and done after the lecture material is selsai. the next few days we all the students with the spirit to follow the lecture because he thought when quickly selsai course we all will do the task that has been given by beliu what else I as a new student and some other friends sgt happy to follow the lecture, because usually kalo inti go to college tuh everything must be on the spirit of enthusiasm and has not seen the feeling lazy dll.hehehe
With the passage of time from day to day for one week it came the last day where the lecture material has been completed our lecturers have started rushing and appealed to every student to immediately do the task already given. Now it was a coincidence that the task given to me and my two friends Oksy and Lena was given the task of how to evangelize people who do not know God or commonly called to recognize Christ to people who do not know him in a specific way and of course by using the power and ability of the Spirit Holy as our lecturers have taught me, let alone my own new person in winning from sin that means new converts or new people to know Christ Jesus as Lord and personal Savior. Before the three of us start doing the work we all make a deal to evangelize in one place in solo and I will not mention where it is. when we have agreed to evangelize in a place that we have agreed together the next day we also go to the third place to go. Temen2 tau not from our campus ride ompreng (public angkotan) and down the middle of the road with full courage we also agreed to walk with longing will successfully perform tasks that will soon be completed in a very short period of time.
Then About 15 minutes later we arrived at the destination for our evangelism. When we got to the place we met with someone who looks somewhat strange, and if in clay from his appearance sorry the person dikirain like crazy, because his clothes torn, his bag also torn sorry keliatannya also kayak rarely bathe. Nevertheless, there the Holy Spirit moves our hearts to approach the person when I am also usually a coward with foreign human apologies especially if the orgnya plasticity strange so surely I do not dare to get closer. But I did not know that time was daring to decree the person and immediately introduced the name of the name. When we asked the person who his name was, he told his name but I will not mention his name who and after the introduction we begin to talk about Christ, who Christ is and recognize the Holy Spirit to him. But it turns out that person when we recognize the person of Christ Jesus to him, he directly response with the answer "I am a prophet and now I am waiting for the second coming of Jesus Christ". He acknowledges that he is a prophet, and from then on he has already begun to speak about Christ and he also discusses the end of the Age, about the time of judgment and so on. There the three of us had begun silence to hear the man speaking because he explained from A-Z about Christianity, what Christian life is like but there are some things that he explained that leads to heresy and certainly not according to the truth of the Bible as the living Word of God. When we heard heresy words from him we also began to speak but the man would not accept and hear us speak because he said "you do not know anything about Jesus and so on after that we go home and leave that person. From this testimony we as God's children can see what happens in these days as the Word of God says there will be false prophets who recognize themselves as prophets, also of those who claim to be Christians but they are not.
In this case we must begin to be on guard and should not be afraid of the circumstances surrounding us, facing what is being faced with us by carrying the name of Jesus Christ as our advocate. Let's learn together to remain strong in our faith in God so that we will not waver and place Christ in the top position means God is prioritized to open ourselves and also position God in the front position so that he becomes a shield in our lives. AML
