After he became a Christian, his siblings, including his parents, were opposed to his decision to start anew!
Before he came to know the lord, he often got sick. He worked as a bus driver, he often had to climb under the bus, as a result of which he was very sick and had to be hospitalized twice a year.
Upon learning this, his wife and his children abandoned him. He was left alone. He had lost interest in life, so he wanted to end his life. After he became very ill, his family left him alone. Naturally, he fell into despair, and on numerous occasions he tried to commit suicide. Fortunately, his mother happened to be at the scene on time, and all his attempts to end his life did not work out as expected. Otherwise another tragedy could have happened.
Due to the fact that he was often ill, he has had to go to the hospital for treatment twice a year. Once the doctors said that he had an incurable disease and their words broke his life, so he wanted to give up on everything.
After I found freedom, joy and peace, I remembered what my mother told me about his story that he wanted to commit suicide. So I made a decision to challenge him with the message of Jesus. One day I went to him, he was an elder brother of my friend I had already spoken of. By the way, I caught him at home on time, I told him about God who gave his life for the sake of humanity, He is loving and all forgiving. However he hates sin and he is the giver of peace and of joy and so on.
Some people misunderstand about guardian angels that protect people from tragedy. It is not true! Only true believers are reliably protected by guardian angels.
I used to think so, but then I realized that I was mistaken according to the bible Psalms 44:7The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them. ..
I am very grateful to God that he used me as a messenger to convey the truth to him. The truth that changed my life, allowed me to reprioritize. I had to do the right thing in the right order.
When I did not know God, I laughed at people who talked about God. If I knew who God was, I would believe in him. Now people laugh at me when I am telling them about God.
I was sure that God would impact him to turn around. Something happened that I knew that would occur in his life.
As soon as possible, I began to share with him what happened to me. I was sincere in sharing my testimony. I have never had such a serious conversation with him before. I didn't want to hide anything from him what happened to me. In fact, I was more frank with him than ever before. Seeing my frankness, and the authenticity of my story, he immediately opened his heart to me. This was the work of the Holy Spirit upon me to make a great impact on him. I remember how I talked to him for hours about God and about Jesus, and time flew by at the blink of an eye. I could never have imagined that my story would intrigue this man to start anew. After all, it was not just some kind of fictional story, but the truth, based on conscience and feelings. Therefore, he was blown away by my testimony. He listened to me with such great interest, and a thirst for knowledge of the truth, by which I was greatly pleased.
At this point I didn't know very well about Jesus. All I knew that he died for our sin and rose again from the dead. The next Sunday we went to church together. And you know what? A miracle happened, he was healed during the sermon as had been expected! He began to feel better and better every day that he had decided to come with me to seminary. After this incident, I do not remember that he ever went to the hospital. Having accepted Jesus into his heart as Savior and Lord, he gave his whole life to the Lord. As his life changed, he devoted his life to serving God. Now he serves as a pastor in Dolinsk church.
God blessed him with marriage, so he got married again that God prepared a good bride for him. After he decided to give himself to the Lord, the entire families, including his parents, were opposed to him.
When I had been told, that all his relatives were against his decision to become Christian, I was surprised at that news. What's wrong he had done to be criticized.
Anyway, at least it’s better for him to be alive than to be dead.
They wanted him to live an ordinary life without God, because they did not believe in the existence of God. It has been a long time since then, to a great surprise, his mother believed in God when she was in a hospital bed, when her life was in danger, then my mother was constantly near her and prayed and told about Jesus. The heart surgery has undergone successfully after which she also believed in God. And now she goes every Sunday without missing a single Sunday. And his father also accepted Christ, being paralyzed, bedridden when I flew to Korea on my business from the mission field. What does Jesus tell the Pharisees?: It is not the healthy need a doctor but the sick. I have come to call not the righteous, but sinners. Who are the righteous that Jesus spoke of? This is a category of people who, relying on their self-righteousness, ruin their lives and want to look righteous outwardly, but inside is full of hypocrisy.
What the Apostle Paul said in his letter to the Romans: not understanding the righteousness of God and striving to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.
Then my former friend with whom I loved to spend time with a glass of beer and his sister opened their hearts to the Lord. It is too early to tell the results, but something would happen. Nobody knows when but God does!
This is not a self -fulfilling prophesy as people may think of. Of course not, God is alive; He is the creator whom we can not see because of our spiritual blindness. The Word says that the God of this world has blinded the minds of those who don't believe, so they are unable to see the glorious light of the gospel of Christ that is shining upon them.
I feel embarrassed to tell that I used to know Jesus like a historical person like one of us, who had nothing to do with my life. Now I know that He is my savior and Lord, more importantly he is the source of life and joy. He has done so much in my life that it is impossible to count on. My whole life is connected with him from now on forever.
After God walked into my life, the impossible becomes possible and the weak becomes strong and the poor becomes rich in God!. I bless the day God walked into my life after which I was able to start a new blessed life! Sometimes it happens that when you want to meet a person, he works miracles in an amazing way. Among many people, he can accurately point to the person with whom you want to meet. It seems as if he is aiming at people with a magnifying glass so that the object become larger and more clearly visible and noticeable. Anyway, this is how I feel but others may feel differently.
It is impossible to describe the glory of God and his works in human language!
Now I understand what it means to be forgiven and redeemed by the precious blood of Jesus. I was forgiven and saved from the bondage of sin, and have been given new life-eternal life that can only be obtained through Jesus Christ. The most interesting thing is that people do not want to believe in him by making an excuse that they are busy minding their own business. Perfect joy and true happiness can only be found in him. For Jesus is the King of the world and the giver of joy. Jesus set me free from sinful life and gave me new life. The more I believe in him, the more I want to talk to people about him. People who do not know God like the prodigal son. But there is hope for everyone to find the truth and the meaning of life, but the time has not come yet.
Jesus is always ready to accept you as you are. You must be aware of the story of the prodigal son. In fact, at first it may seem to you that this story has nothing to do with you, if you carefully look at this character in the story, then you will find yourself in the place of the prodigal son. It was not in vain that Jesus spoke of the prodigal son. The story of the prodigal son concerns all people who cut off from God! These people do not have real peace and joy in their hearts, rather anxiety and worrisome. It seems to them now that everything is going smoothly, but in reality it is not so, it just seems to them. They are the most unfortunate people, driven into a dead end by the forces of the darkness. The story of the prodigal son shows his helplessness, hopelessness, and inability to hope for the future.