A Testimonial on Salvation and God’s Mercy
I’m thankful to God for my parent’s salvation. I feel that I owe God a testimonial so as to give others a hope in their parent’s salvation. I hope every word in my testimonial is what God wants me to write.
I have brought my parents to church on Christmas and Chinese New Year for about three years. However, for one year plus, I have not been attending church and thus did not bring my parents to church. Around Oct-05, my dad was diagnosed with lung cancer. Four months later, my dad’s illness worsens as the cancer cell spread from the lung to the brain, and his left part of his body was paralyzed.
My mom and I knew that we need to be prepared for the fact that my dad may not be able to live long. Besides being trouble by my dad’s illness, I was troubled by my studies and other problems. I pray to God for peace and guidance. I began to read his word and realized my life has drifted far away from God.
On Saturday night 25-mar-06, I decided to call Cam Yew and told him about the illness of my dad. On Sunday afternoon 26-mar-06, Cam Yew and Esther visited my parent. On their second visit in Sunday afternoon 09-apr-06, my parent spoke to them regarding the issue of seeking help from church to move from A.M.K. community hospital to a nursery home. In addition, my parents were hinting to us that they were considering to become Christian.
When Cam Yew asked me if my parent was willing to receive Jesus, I replied “No”. This was because my dad had always been reluctant to go to church. It was my mom who persuaded my dad to go to church all along. On one occasion, after my dad returned home from church that he told my mom and me that he does not want to go to church again.
After knowing that my parents were willing to become Christian, Cam Yew, Esther and myself were glad. We managed to contact Pastor James Lim of the “Lai Bai Shen” dialect outreach ministry. He visited my parent on Monday night 10-apr-06, and my parent prayed the sinner’s prayer. Thereafter, we contacted Rev Fong of the A.M.K. Chinese Methodist Church to visit my parents on Wednesday afternoon, 12-Apri-06 to discuss about the baptism. Then on Easter Sunday afternoon 16-apr-06, my parents were baptized in the presence of brothers-in-christ, sisters-in-christ and my relatives,
The most important lesson that I have learnt is that despite of a broken fellowship with God over the past one year plus, God remains merciful. It is God who saves my parents.
Perhaps for some of us, we may think that getting our loved ones to receive Jesus as their Savior is like pushing a concrete wall, but we never know until the last moment, God in his will is able to turn the situation around. I hope this testimonial will encourage you not to give up on your loved ones, to turn away from sins, to pray and to bring people to God.
Glory be to God, brother-in-christ, xing long
