Hello!
Today is THE DAY!!
Confirmation, me, fully christian.^^
Some of you maybe confused.
Let me break it down for you...
I am born in a christian family and I undergone infant baptism, baptism done with my parent's consent. So having being baptised as an infant, one day I have to do a public declaration that I belong and believe in the Almighty God. That day is today.
Here is my testimony, for those who did not attend the cermony.
My testimony:
God have been so awesome to place me in a Christian family where I am blessed to be baptized at a tender age and to grow in LPPC since I was a baby. Awesome right? I know.
As a kid I worry whether I will end up in Heaven because I had been warned multiple times that being born in a Christian family doesn’t make me a Christian. I always wondered what would make me a true Christian.
Well, I got my answer through a period of time when I was a teenager (mainly during my secondary school days). I guess it was then that I seek my own thinking, own morals and own beliefs. I redo the prayer in which I tell the Lord that I am willing to give my life to him on the 22nd October 2006.
When I say redo, I meant that I did that countless times when I was in Sunday school but that time round I was serious. I mean it.
Having given my life to God, from that day onwards to now, I did grow in my walk with God and also saw countless ways the Lord actually bless me.
Well, accepting God back into my life is not the end of the story but the beginning.
Since I have to fill the whole page, let me share with you how on event that happen to me that cause me to grow more reliant on God.
One area is my language. I am blessed to be able to do well in my sciences and maths. However, my languages were the opposite ends of the sphere. Both my English and mother tongue grades were either borderline passes or fail. I was always given those comments where if my English fail then I will have to be retained even though my science and maths grades were good. Being unable to be promoted was a scare and a motivator that only lasted after my promotion to secondary 3. Getting a nice report card was not a strong and lasting motivator and purpose. Then Aunty Georgina shared a verse, John 1:1. It reads, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” From this I know that the Word belongs God. What struck me was that if I flunk my English and Chinese how am I suppose to communicate with others that has yet to hear the gospel? I decided to put in an effort to excel in both my languages. So in the beginning, I tried reading the newspaper and ensured that my spoken sentences are not peppered with singlish but with a wider range of vocabulary. The journey was definitely tough but the amazing thing about the whole process was that God was making me tougher to failures and more reliant on Him. This always reminds me that our weaknesses are avenues in which we can glorify God as he is constantly making us perfect. Through the journey, which I tried to improve my languages, my schoolmates realized something that was different about me, as even though in the beginning I failed a couple of test despite my efforts to improve but I carried on. It is true indeed that people read our lives more then they read any other books. It made an impact on my friends as they were dumbfounded on how did I manage to improve my languages (B3 for English and A1 for Chinese) in a short 2 years. I am glad that this weakness of mine was something that I can touch on to share the gospel with them.
Praise the Lord.
(P.s. This does not mean I can speak perfect English or fluent Chinese, it is still work in progress hor.)
Love
Mic3helle
♥MICH-SHELL
