Just wanted to share

[Zane]

Hey Guys,
I just wanted to share some stuff about what’s happening in my life and what God has been up to in that respect.

I know I’m a toddler in terms of posts and you guys don’t know me but I hope that you can take something away from this, then that would make me happy.

I’m a fairly young Christian; I was saved on the 23rd of April 2003 in the Czech Republic while out on a 'Young Life' service project, but I’ve grown up in a loving Christian Household (thank God) which taught me all about Jesus and building your house on the rock and not the sand etc, so really I’ve know all about God and Jesus all my life, but it was all head knowledge and not ‘heart knowledge’ and I couldn’t seem to make that transition. But in the beginning of yr 12, I prayed that God show himself to me after I had finished schooling so that I had time to concentrate on him, because I knew there was more to Christianity than just Church and arguing for the principle of ‘God’ etc.

So when it really hit me that Wednesday night, that Jesus had died for ME…. For ME, not just he died for me,..… but for ME. I then realised, or actually God made me aware that I could have a personal relationship with him (which I knew but didn’t have), and I remembered my prayer roughly a year prior. So it was like a bit of evidence there with the salvation, that it had actually ‘worked’

So now I’m back in Australia (I was living in Munich at the time) with all my old friends (most non-Christian) and am going to Uni, were I am growing heaps and learning a lot as well, about God in particular. There is a Christian Union here and they have camps and TEAM meetings (training in evangelism & ministery) and small groups were we are going over Colossians atm. Tomorrow I have an essay due on the problem of evil for philosophy/religion, ‘wether its possible to suppose that God exists given the types of evil in the world etc’

My last paragraph reads:
(Even David Hume said it was just barely possible that God exists. (Strobel 2000, p. 43) and, if one of histories greatest sceptics can allow a fraction of a possibility that God exists, then it is plausible to suppose that God exists.
In the end the choice to believe that God exists or not is a personal choice, just the same as it is whether you choose to take that choice seriously and see were it leads you. Evil is real, and the question, why it still remains when God could redeem us from it and give Humanity and the world a peaceful existence with no pain and suffering remains. Perhaps the time is not yet ripe.)
I cant make it too ‘preachy’ or Id fail I think, the lecture is pretty cynical sometimes, but a nice guy, who genuinely doubts I think….

And I know that God is using me (that sounds kinda cocky doesn’t it) but tell my friends, slowly but surely about God, with some of them its really hard to bring up the topic without them running away basically. But I know some people have thought a bit about it since I’ve been back and chatted to them.
But I have to go to my next lecture now so …. This should really be in whos who…. Shouldn’t it…. Doesn’t matter, you guys are my target audience anyway

Thanks for listening, and God Bless.

[Staci]

Thank you for this post, Zane! It is wonderful to hear other people's stories.

Furthermore, I like the last bit of the paper you are writing. It's akin to a quote that I like to use, "Even the devil knows there is a God."

[Ssjjvash]

Wow, that's a cool testimony, Zane! Praise God!!

[Mr. SmartyPants]

I think God uses all of us to spread his word, then those people will spread the word, and so forth

[Zane]

Theres a building pic, the little and really really cold houses we stayed in for the week, a group pic, and a finished pic when we partyed with all the kids. The quality isn't that good but like that i can fit more on this post. I can email u guys some better ones (quality) aswell if u wanna see them. I want to encourage all of you to go on a short-term mission at least once, its a blast , you make international friends and it really opens your eyes and changes you.... naturally it also helps grow your relation with God. I thank God heaps for allowing me to have this experience and to now have a new life.
Amen.

[Swordguy]

So when it really hit me that Wednesday night, that Jesus had died for ME…. For ME, not just he died for me,..… but for ME. I then realised, or actually God made me aware that I could have a personal relationship with him

it still hits me alot of the time. Glad you realized that you can have a relationship with God. alot of the time we forget that and try to go back to doing just traditions.

And I know that God is using me (that sounds kinda cocky doesn’t it)

I am glad that you realize that many just think that now that they are saved that is all God wanted for them. Its not He has a plan for us all.

i will keep you in my prayers God bless

[Zane]

Cheers Sword-Man. God Bless you mate.

[Jaltus-bot]

Thank you, God bless you.