A couple days ago myself and a couple of my teammates were given the opportunity to be used by God to speak into the life of a young woman, and neither her or I will be the same.
This young woman is a psychologist at a foundation in a impoverished area of Quito, Ecuador with the purpose of helping educate the children in the area and provide a safe place for them to be when not in school. She is from Paris, France and has a heart designed for kids and teens in hard situations.
One day last week, after lunch, we prompted the question of God. Her response was that she was unsure about it, and that the people she had seen who called themselves Christians had also been the same people who she had seen drunk and beat there wives and children. This opened the door to the conversation of religion versus relationship and that when people repent to simply stay out of hell or get to heaven that it’s not true and that’s not what we are about. Heaven and hell are side effects of the bigger picture and the true issue which is to have a relationship with our Creator. I do not follow the rules to gain heaven or to gain relationship. I follow out of love for God, a desire to be closer to him and out of thanks to the sacrifice of His son that I would have the opportunity and the privilege to know Him and be known by Him. I choose to live without sin so that I may be always found in the presence of the God almighty.
Towards the end if the conversation she began to cry, when asked if she would like to start her relationship with God she stated she was still unsure and that she had some anger towards God. My teammates and I encouraged her to pursue God and take it up with Him. He’s a big God and can handle all she has, and that as long as she is on this earth He will be there waiting for her.
This was the first time I had ever witnessed to anybody about Christ and the love of God, and I now understand what my dad was talking about when he told me that this is the greatest job in the world. I have never felt more alive or honored than when the spirit decided to use me to speak to this woman and draw her closer to God. There is no higher purpose.
