22. Joshua - The fear of death sparks my search for God
Name: Joshua
Date: 1980
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Source: Walking on Water, Amazing Grace Publications, 2007
I was born the youngest among four brothers into a Taoist family, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As a young child, I witnessed many funeral processions at my housing estate and heard dogs howling through the night. The fear of death gripped my little heart. I asked my grandmother, “What happens when people die? Where do they go?” I thought our elders had all the answers but she did not give me a reply that day.
At the age of 6 or 7, I looked up to heaven one day and talked to the God whom I did not know – “God, if You exist and You hear me now, show Yourself to me and tell me the answers.” The God of heaven heard me and He intervened in my life.
At the age of 9, a tuition mate by the name of Y-Mi invited me to his Sunday School. Up till then, I did not know what Christianity was and I had never met a Christian before. Who would have imagined a 10-year-old boy reaching out to a 9-year-old? God had intervened miraculously as an answer to my prayer. I asked Y-mi, “What is a Sunday School?” He said it was a fun place for kids and I readily agreed to attend, but I had to first seek parental consent.
Though my parents were Taoists, they granted me permission to attend Sunday School. My mother was hoping that Sunday School could change my behavior as, unlike my brothers, I was the black sheep who constantly got into trouble with the headmaster and teachers in school.
I started attending Sunday School in an Assemblies of God church that occupied a shop-house beside a factory, opposite a football field. Shortly after, I joined the main service as well. The people in church were full of love and enthusiasm for God. I saw God through their unconditional love and their passion. A
In 1980, at the age of 9, during a church service, I gave my life to the Lord Jesus and accepted Him into my heart. At that moment, I knew I was a child of God and felt abundant love and joy in my heart. I was no longer afraid of death because I had received eternal life. God had found me, His lost sheep, and I had found the living God I was seeking for.
Date: 1980
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Source: Walking on Water, Amazing Grace Publications, 2007
I was born the youngest among four brothers into a Taoist family, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As a young child, I witnessed many funeral processions at my housing estate and heard dogs howling through the night. The fear of death gripped my little heart. I asked my grandmother, “What happens when people die? Where do they go?” I thought our elders had all the answers but she did not give me a reply that day.
At the age of 6 or 7, I looked up to heaven one day and talked to the God whom I did not know – “God, if You exist and You hear me now, show Yourself to me and tell me the answers.” The God of heaven heard me and He intervened in my life.
At the age of 9, a tuition mate by the name of Y-Mi invited me to his Sunday School. Up till then, I did not know what Christianity was and I had never met a Christian before. Who would have imagined a 10-year-old boy reaching out to a 9-year-old? God had intervened miraculously as an answer to my prayer. I asked Y-mi, “What is a Sunday School?” He said it was a fun place for kids and I readily agreed to attend, but I had to first seek parental consent.
Though my parents were Taoists, they granted me permission to attend Sunday School. My mother was hoping that Sunday School could change my behavior as, unlike my brothers, I was the black sheep who constantly got into trouble with the headmaster and teachers in school.
I started attending Sunday School in an Assemblies of God church that occupied a shop-house beside a factory, opposite a football field. Shortly after, I joined the main service as well. The people in church were full of love and enthusiasm for God. I saw God through their unconditional love and their passion. A
In 1980, at the age of 9, during a church service, I gave my life to the Lord Jesus and accepted Him into my heart. At that moment, I knew I was a child of God and felt abundant love and joy in my heart. I was no longer afraid of death because I had received eternal life. God had found me, His lost sheep, and I had found the living God I was seeking for.
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