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I have Found the Real Freedom, Cherry Wu

During 1997, after I finished my Masters degree, I got a job working in a computer company as a software engineer. I liked my job very much, and I lived in my own apartment. The money I earned afforded me to buy things I wanted and do things I wanted; however, I felt there was just a little bit of dissatisfaction in my being. Thus, I become more diligent and more involved in the local church. I really started seeking the Lord because I knew only the Lord could be my reality and satisfy my heart. One time I saw some videos about the Triune God's relationship with man as revealed in the book of John. I was impressed with the depth of the truth concerning this matter. I realized that what I knew about God and the Bible and other spiritual things was so shallow and so poor; there are so many more riches hidden in God and in God's word. I felt I could spend the rest of my life to study the truth. How could this desire actually be put to practice in my life and where should I start?

Throughout several nights of watching such videos I felt a calling and speaking to me by the Lord: “Now your heart is touched and impressed by this rich, high truth, but afterwards you will turn on the TV and all these things you have heard and have been impressed with tonight will mean nothing to you. You will still be the same as passive-as before. Why are you still sitting here? Do something! Don't just sit here and listen!” With such a compelling voice, I thought I should get more involved with the local church and read more of the Bible. As I went on, I began to realize I was short of so many things I just didn't know how to serve, how to shepherd, or how to preach the gospel. Eventually, I realized that I needed training, I needed to be trained in so many things. I needed to be equipped with the truth; I needed to grow in His life. I needed to learn how to preach the gospel to people; I needed to have a separate time for me to concentrate on the Lord alone. I felt these were worth my doing. Christ has become real to me and I was attracted by Him and nothing on this earth could stop me from pursuing Him.

Thus, I had the thought to come to the Full-Time Training in Anaheim (FTTA). I prayed to the Lord that He would show me that going to the Training was the way He wanted me to take, because I still had some doubts. Praise the Lord, firstly, on one morning while I was driving to work, my car broke down and it was too expensive to fix; so I decided I would just take the bus to work every day. After about one month, on one Friday afternoon, the company I worked for called a meeting and made an announcement: they were bankrupt. Meanwhile, I found out my apartment manager had mistakenly rented my apartment to some other person. That meant I had to move out at the end of the same month. Outwardly, it seemed I just had misfortunes going on in my life but inwardly I knew that the Lord had made the way clear for me to go to the FTTA. The Lord took my job, my car, and my apartment away to set me free so that I would not be bound by all the earthy things and I would be able to go to the FTTA to pursue Him and to know Him! Thank the Lord! It's not the one who runs or who wills, but the Lord who shows mercy (Romans 9:16)!

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