Wednesday, April 05, 2006
*.* Why did I choose Christ? *.*
Today during my sociology tutorial, each of us are suppose to do a short presentation of the articles we were assigned to. Mine was on religion and whether it is still as important even in the modern society. After I did my presentation, my tutor decided to do a little survey on the religions in our class... Don't really know whether it's good or not but Christians and free thinkers topped the charts... kk, but that's not the main point of this post.. getting there...Then the tutor introduced this new theory (which I don't want to go into) then she asks who wasn't borned into a Christian family. Of course i raised up my hand... then she asked me what was my former religion. Buddhism... Then the BIG question came "So what so good about Christianity that I would want to convert from Buddhism to Christianity?"STUNNED!!
I really didn't expect that question at all man... and it felt like i was to give my testimony lah! Then I just said, "It's a long story". Then she persisted!! "Well I'm sure the class can spare abit of time" Oh man..... Then i just mumbled something about Christianity being more real... and she persisted somemore!!! "real as in??????" "well... real... more meaningful kind of thing?" I was just crapping already and what was in my heart wasn't to answer what I truly feel but just to get out of this mess as soon as possible..hm.... really wanted to slap myself... here, a GOLDEN opportunity to share about Christ eventhough it's just answering a question in tutorial.... i blew it... sigh... feeling quite sad now...felt like i've just ommitted the greatest and most wonderful things about being a Christian.... like what about the personal relationship? what about the comfort HE brings to me? What about His love that He saved me from the wretched place of hell and gave me a place in heaven through His Son?? These things didn't cross my mind at all... and all i wanted to do was to runaway and hope to get her to stop asking me questions...I guess the point in writing this is really to show how when the crunch time comes to share about your faith.... the big question you and i should ask ourselves is... ARE WE READY?? i guess i wasn't from the moment left my room without doing my QT... this leads me to really reflect how the armor of GOD should really be put on everyday.. no matter how tiring or heavy the armor is, it is there to defend the gospel and to evangelise to the people...Really a big lesson learnt today... gonna do devotions now.. :)shin7e
I cheered with joy @ | 3:42 PM
