So, its been a long while since I posted. Anyways, I decided to share a testimony of my life( for the fun of it) Growing up in a christian family, I attended Sunday school all my life, taught to pray before meals, love and forgive... You know, just be like a good role model so that people will see Christ in us. I never really fully understood the meaning of being a christian, more specifically being God's child. Fast forward, when i was secondary 1, almost every teenager at that age goes through identity crisis. Like who am i, why do i look like that, what is the purpose of my life, what am i living for? What made it worse was that i did not do really well for my PSLE. I transferred to Peirce from Hougang in hope for a "better place". However, i had lots of difficulties making friends partly because i refuse to move on from primary school. I hated new surrroundings, new people... The insecurity that i felt, i thought no one could understand how i felt. I masked my unhappiness with good grades so that no one could see how lonely i felt. One day, during my church camp sermon, God spoke to me in ways unimaginable. Im more comfortable with English and struggled to understand Chinese. But Our God is a God of all tongues, all language. Somehow, the language barrier was lifted. I was throughly touched by the sermon and the testimony shared during the camp. I remember that on the first day i was laughing at the back of the church and talking to my friends not listening. But by the last day of the camp, God touched me and my heart opened up to listen attentively to God's words. He showed my that he cares for me no matter how much i turn away from him, he still loves me. He knows my struggles and my hurt, he was willing to help me carry it. I just started crying, tears of joys just kept flowing. I kept praying: Oh Lord, set my heart on fire! It was just an amazing feeling! First time in my life, I knew God exist. I felt God's presence. He is real and not just some Bible story. He told me who am I, I am God's child. Sec 2, I made new friends and wasnt the loner in class anymore. But as we walk closer and closer to God, satan would always be there to tempt you to backslide. That was the case for me. 2 things happen when i was 14: I tore my knee ligament and i "boy" trouble. Tearing of my ligament was the worse feeling ever. As a dancer, i felt as if God was taking away the one thing that i was good at. I cried to the Lord, God if you really want the best for me, why did you take away something so precious to me. If you are the God that all good and gracious, why did you hurt me? Why cant you heal me? I was really bitter at God. I started walking away from God. I attended this children conference, and they had altar call. Honestly, I knew God exist, but i didnt really go forward during the altar call because i wanted to give my life to Christ. Rather, i wanted to observe what was going on down there. So my churchmate and I went down, there i met H(not his actual name) H and I when out a couple of times. Things started to get cloudy between us. We started talking about ...stuff. One fine day, he asked me whether we wanted to do it. I have no idea what came to me, but im sure God was there to stop me. I said No. Thank God. I was barely 13 then. God's hands protected me from harm. Even though God was there, i didnt apporach him. It wasnt enough for me to go back to God. My parents were going through a rough time, they didnt notice me and focus their attention on my siblings, the guy kept perstering me, I had no idea who i was... I just wanted to be a bad kid to get the attention of people around me. I started self cutting, smoking and all those crap... I was filled with bitterness. I hated myself. I hated everyone. Eventually my church mates noticed, they started sending me encouraging text messages and filled me with God's word. I still remember my church mate text me this: "Good morning sunshine!:)" The feeling of being loved again made me happy. Slowly but surely, the joy of the Lord filled my heart. God heard my cries and used the people around me to show me his love.