Comments on: Salvation: What are you thankful for?

By: Lillian Chung

Lillian Chung — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:58:42 +0000

I’m so thankful that salvation is a gift received personally but enjoyed by many. I was so moved this past Tuesday when we held a short prayer meeting and Pastor Manny opened the time up for people to come up to the mic and share what they’re thankful for along the lines of salvation and church. Person after person, people were sharing how thankful they were for the salvation they received, some of them from this past year, and many were moved to tears as they shared with everyone else. I found myself, along with others that I could hear around me, uttering “Amen”s and “Thank you Lord”s after each person’s sharing, as the joy of each person’s salvation was multiplied in that room. Thank you Lord that I can partake in joy not from just my own salvation, but from those of others as I know You’ve rejoiced over each person who received Christ and were cleansed from their sin.

By: Lois Wei

Lois Wei — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:29:51 +0000

I’m so thankful that God touched my hardened heart, and brought so many people to care for, and share the Gospel with me along the years, even during the time when i felt like giving up on myself, God used circumstances to cause me, and encourage me to seek Him again. I thought I was seeking God, but it was really God who sought me out. Thank God for his patient, volnerable, and persevering love for someone unworthy as me. Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

By: Angie Ng

Angie Ng — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:29:51 +0000

I thank God for redeeming my life from darkness, because of His love for me. There is nothing I can do to ever deserve it. Through so many people and circumstances, He spoke
to me and touched me again and again despite the many times I turned away and hurt Him. This new life I have been given means I no longer have to carry the weight and guilt for my sins. Instead I can live with the hope that I have something greater, some higher purpose beyond this earth to live for. And I know I can push on in the midst of tough circumstances because I know God will be faithful all the way to the end, and one day there will be no more pain and sadness, and instead only praising God and rejoicing in heaven. Each day that I live, I live with that end in mind, as I try to love the people around me and live out my Christian faith.

By: Franklin

Franklin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:13:14 +0000

I am thankful that the gospel is the ultimate good news. I need not search elsewhere. Whenever I despair and feel down because of my own brokenness, I can turn to God who loved me even while I was His enemy. His amazing, reckless love is more than enough to keep me going. I am thankful that I have Someone worthy to sing about.

By: Carmen

Carmen — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:39:51 +0000

I thank God that He did not leave me alone as a sinner, but took the initiative to save me from my sin. He paid the cost for me on the Cross and welcomed me into His family. It is the greatest evidence of His love and provision.

By: KJ

KJ — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:16:16 +0000

I’m so thankful for my salvation because it gives me the ability to look past the immediate circumstances of my life, as well as my past sins and regrets. I know that the sins that plague me now will not plague me forever, and there is still hope for me because of what Jesus did on the cross. Instead of dwelling in the past, I can focus on the future and the hope of heaven – something I can’t wait to enjoy with all my brothers and sisters!

By: Audrey Kimteng

Audrey Kimteng — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:47:35 +0000

The most amazing thing is how God has peeled away at me and finally brought me to my salvation. Through the two Course 101 classes that taught me about what Christianity is all about, through the many conversations, meals, and activities with people that allowed me to share relationships with this body of Christ and experience God’s compassion and genuine love, through the bible reading, the Sunday worship services, and the Encounters with Jesus class in Praxis that allowed me to personalize God’s word continually, through the reaching out events at CSUEB with Praxis that allowed me to envision God’s good plan for each and every one of His children, and even through the heartbreaking times I had in my effort to pursue romantic relationships, God has amazingly orchestrated every single event in my life to show his true self to me and to show me my true identity as both a sinner and yet a loved daughter in Christ. God stayed faithful – he was patient when I continually resisted and denied him; he was gentle as he came to me with softness; he was there everytime when I was down and he lifted me up out of my misery. I just want to say how thankful I am for God’s unstoppable and faithful love.

By: Lena

Lena — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:20:55 +0000

I am thankful for having direction in my life. I am thankful to every person, situation, prayer and scripture passage that God used to lead me to a restored relationship with Him. I am so glad to serve a Father who knows me inside and out, yet loves me unconditionally, and even wishes to use every sin, shame, and hurt for his noble purposes. Without him, I would be going in a circular direction of trying to please others and spiraling downward into an endless, tiring pursuit. I would have become a shapeshifter who would not even know her original identity. Now, I have no reason to fear rejection nor condemnation because he sees me as I am, and still chose to display his love and forgiveness on the cross. I am thankful to find contentment and purpose in serving an audience of one.

By: Stephany

Stephany — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:48:00 +0000

I’m so thankful that God has adopted me into His kingdom and to make all of us a family of brothers and sisters. I’m grateful that He views me as His child and that my significance lies in that simple fact. We were assigned to give a Bible study this past week in the SK2 Praxis course and I decided to give it on performance and approval because of my struggles with this area. Preparing for that Bible study made me realize once again that my significance shouldn’t be based on human approval, which is temporary, but on being God’s child, which I will always be. I realized just how much God loves me and doesn’t require anything of me, but just to have faith in Him. No amount of work can earn salvation because Christ has paid it all, for which I have been blessed.

By: Ander Chen

Ander Chen — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:11:12 +0000

I’m thankful for my salvation and for the fact that I no longer have to bear the guilt and shame of my sin. I’m thankful that I have hope and look forward to being to being victorious over my sins. I’m just so thankful that I don’t have to live in cynicism or doubt but can trust in the hope of victory with God!