To a thousand generations...
My heritage was Christianity, dating back generations. My great-great grandparents moved to America to worship Christ freely and my great grandparents were missionaries in China. My grandparents continued to work in China until forced to flee back to North America, where they taught my parents, infusing in them the fire for Christ that they have. My parents then passed that fire on to me and my siblings. However, it wasn’t my parents who "said the prayer" with me. It was my grandmother. When I was six, and visiting her house, she took me into a little room and explained Christianity to me: How God created us perfect, and we sinned and fell. How Jesus became man and died for us, paying the price for our sins, which otherwise would have sent us to Hell, and how if I believed in Him, and repented of my sins, He would free me from my sins, and take me to heaven when I died. With the simple faith of a child, I accepted, to the joy of my grandmother and parents. At this time, we were living in Brazil, and being that Dad was very preoccupied with his work and the church he was helping to lead, my spiritual life suffered; not growing, but, by God’s grace, also not dying. Then, I believe, God performed a miracle for our family. My dad’s job basically forced him to go to Indonesia and work there. We all went with him and ended up staying there for 4 years with him. We were very isolated, and Dad’s job had him home every evening at 7:00. With no distractions, he was able to see our spiritual needs and nurtured myself and my siblings in the faith.
When those four blessed years were up, we moved again, this time to Canada. I was now 12, and being submerged into a secular society, I went through a period of serious doubting and testing of my faith. As a result of this, I felt I needed to repent again and reaffirm my desire to follow Christ. At this time I had no friends locally. I’m the kind of person who needs friends; otherwise I tend to withdraw from everyone. Thus, I feel that God worked another miracle in my life. I was surfing the internet and found the webpage "Jazz 2 Stuff" set up by a guy called Steven Wakeman. Somehow, something inside me told me that I had found the friend I needed, and so I humbly contacted him, asking to become friends. He accepted my offer of friendship, and we emailed back and forth regularly about Christianity and things that were going on in our lives. I was really encouraged by this friendship, and thus became bolder in "real life" and obtained several more friends. Fortunately, this was not the end of my friendship with Steven, which led to our joint effort on a Christian website to help unbelievers and Christians alike. We want to share the amazing fire for Christ that we have been given.
All of this is not to say that I no longer sin, nor that I never doubt my faith, but I believe that God has worked through my heritage, and worked direct miracles in my life which have led me back to him and have inspired me to share His free gift of Grace.
-Lendl Meyer
Faith like a child...
My earliest memory is at age four when my dad told me about Jesus and asked if I wanted to accept him into my heart. I said "yes." Growing up, I went to church, read my Bible, and said some prayers each night. I thought that God only wanted me to be a good person, but even this did not bring me peace. I cried out to God for help, and he answered me. As I got older, I was convicted by my own sinful failures and the separation my sin caused between myself and God. I realized that God desired to have a personal relationship with me, and He came to live inside of me when I accepted Jesus Christ’s death on the cross as payment for my sins. I couldn’t save myself, not by good things I did or religious motions I followed. Since that decision, drastic changes have been taking place in my life as my attitudes, my desires, and my very purpose for living are being altered as a result of my faith. I have true peace in my life and complete confidence that I will forever live with God in heaven. I once worried immensely about all kinds of things, but the worries are fading in the light of the joy I experience as my faith continues to deepen. I can trust God in any circumstance because He is always working for my good, even through the most difficult trials in my life. As He has done for me, I believe that God desires to bring peace to every human soul.
-Steven Wakeman
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