You’re love is an endless ocean,
a bottomless sea.
Hosanna I want to know god.
That was the text message I received last night.
I first met Jaclyn when I was standing outside her dorm at Arizona State University a year and a half ago. I had a survey in my hand asking college students what they believe and I didn’t even get through the first question before she said, “I’m an atheist.” I instantly threw out the survey and just began talking to her. It turned out that we had a mutual friend and so I set up a time for the 3 of us to get coffee. From that day on Jaclyn and I became good friends.
Throughout our friendship I began inviting her to church, trying my best to answer all her questions about God, and just loving her the way that Jesus told us to love people. Sometimes I would think that she was so close to believing in God and surrendering her life to the Jesus, but then she would pull back and seem like a million miles away.
In the middle of the ’11 spring semester, due to family issues, she unexpectedly had to leave ASU and go back to Reno with no intentions of coming back next fall. Though it was so hard to see her go, I knew that God wasn’t finished with her yet, that where I left off someone else would pick up, I had to believe that God was going to finish the work the he started in her. But I didn’t think I would be the one to get to see it.
Hosanna I want to know god.
I read that text message and called her right away. She answered the phone crying and I quickly asked her what was wrong, if she was okay. She said that she had watched a youtube video of a Christian guy telling all his near death experiences (he had a heart condition). In the video he told of how he was in a bright room and he felt so at peace that he didn’t want to come back. The Message of the video was, “do you believe in Angels or God? I do.” She told me after she watched that video she felt like she just woke up, and in an instant she knew everything was real, that God was real, and that she needed to know God.
Last night over the phone I prayed with her to give her life to Jesus.
It was the pleasure of my life.
Luke 15:10
In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
I leave in just 11 days for Guatemala!
