The Day My Life Changed!

There was a time when I used to make fun of my Christian friends worshipping a pathetic, helpless man who was pinned on a cross. I always mocked at this crazy bunch of people who had nothing better to do than to wake up every Sunday morning for church "jamming"... Worse still, church people seemed like "money suckers" to me as they always asked people to contribute money. I remembered been told by a friend who visited a "West Bound" church and the people there expect everyone to "tithe" even if you are visitors!!! Wassup???

However, May 2004, I was at the lowest point in my life. Having seen my dreams of promotion being broken after my previous company was bought over, I resigned. It was a period of hardship as I witnessed people backstabbing each other, friends betraying me and even girlfriend abandoning me for someone more stable. To sum it all, I was left with nothing... no career, no money and no honey. All I had in me were grievances and disappointments in life.

However, I was very fortunate to know Karen - who was actually my client from my previous company. She knew how excited I was when talking about the chance of getting promoted. During this period of darkness, I got to meet some wonderful friends whom Karen introduced to me. It was really a blessing as God has given me a group of people whom I now call my Brothers and Sisters in Heaven!

I have Mr Mel Gibson to thank for the movie, “Passion of Christ.” I watched it last Easter (2004) and was really moved as I saw how Jesus suffered during the last 24 hours of His life. I finally realized the reason why Jesus died. It caused me to do some soul searching; to deal with guilt and shame in my life. If this is really a true account of what had happened in history, then I better find out more about it... Karen then passed me this book called, "Case For Christ." It was a book that really answered my doubts and changed my unresponsive heart. I started reading the Bible... which changed my life.

As I read the bible, I began to see miraculous events happening in my life. I knew they were not concidental. Hence I made a decision to enter into a relationship with Christ. Since then I was totally "blown away" by the grace of GOD!

Let me share about the business I started last year. It began with my first visit to Care Group. At the end of the Bible discussion, Elaine, my unit leader offered to pray for me. I was hesitant at first, but finally decided to open up my heart to GOD. I simply asked for smooth planning over the next few weeks and the whole group prayed for me. The next day when I was at Hello! shop collecting my phone, I happened to share with Reina who is the staff serving me that day about my new setup (an all-round imaging hub providing digital imaging, photography and talent services) and to my astonishment, she told me that she was an digital imaging (DI) artist before?! Hesitantly believing her, I told her to meet up again and gave her some assignment to see her capabilities. Right now she is my DI artist playing a pivotal role in my business.

Besides Reina, God also gave me a wonderful Photographer! I remembered checking out his website and the first thing I saw was Genesis 1:3 "And God said, let there be light and there was light." Was that YOU- the ALMIGHTY GOD talking to me? Not surprisingly his company name is called Lighthouse Images.

I could not imagine someone so disappointed in life with only $20 in the bank to be able see all this happen! Prayers have been answered, people coming forward to help me, words of wisdom from God, etc. In Jeremiah 29:11-14 God says, "For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come to pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you…"

After so much Jesus has done, there is no way for me to "repay" Him than to commit my life to serve in His Kingdom. I love all of you who is reading this now, hence I urge you to take a step of faith in Christ because God first loved us...

God Blesses,
Jon