Lena Wong

I sort of grew up in the church, I went since I was 3 or 4. When I was 7 or so though, my mom starting working the night shift, and we went less and less until we finally stopped altogether. I knew about God, but not really about His love or how His Son died for us. The only thing I knew was God made everything happen.

Now, coming from a 7 year old mind, I started to blame all of my problems on Him. I cursed Him, and when I got in trouble, it was always His fault. I had no resason to live! This was all when I was 8 or 9! The devil was trying to lead me to believe that God was evil, and it worked! Also I started the whole cursing business, and I started to steal. I totally threw Christianity and religion down the toilet.

A couple years later, we started going again, my dad started to take us. I went into the 6th grade class….I didnt’ feel accepted, all of the kids kinda ignored me, but I stayed, which now that I look back on, was totally from God. I started to hang out with my brother, and the guys in the group. Eventually I started interacting with the other girls in my group. We went on a Christian retreat, to Port Jervis, NY, where I think God drew us closer yet again.

I then took a discipleship class with my Sunday School class, and was baptized with my brother. I then learned how Jesus Christ had saved me from an eternal live away from God. I prayed the sinner’s prayer, and I became totally with Him. Over the 3 years, I’ve been working on becoming all out for Him. I gave up the stealing, cursing, and although I still sin, I’m trying my hardest to perfect my life as far as it can go. I still have many problems though, and I try to get rid of them, like trying to treat everyone as if they were Jesus, and just plainly being nice to everyone. I’ve changed totally over the past years, and I want to keep changing, and it’s all for Him. I’m working on being an all time Christian, and living all out for Him. I’m still trying to be a model Christian, but what a change since that long time ago! I now have a reason to live, and am closer to God as ever, I love him with all my heart and soul, and I live for Him. There’s no way the devil can get me now! I am wearing the armor of God, and I want to fight in the battle against the devil. Holy Spirit our general…..if our God is for us how can we fail?? We can’t!

I love life now, and it’s all because of God, the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ. I have a newfound best friend and it’s totally awesome! Our youth group has grown tight and it’s basically my support group. When I’m having doubts or problems, I go straight to them and my faith strengthens. I’ve heard of the many wonderful stories of how Christ changed lives, and this is mine. I could sing of His love forever! I could talk for hours on end about my faith, and the wonders of God Almighty! No one can hurt me now, no one can take my things away, because I have given it ALL to Jesus, it’s all His. God gave me life, and I’m just giving it back.

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