在大学里过着基督徒的生活

这始于我在大学生活中过着基督徒的生活

在我大学的第一年,我回想起有多少青少年或新信徒来教会之后很快就失去信仰,因为我们的敌人非常强大。所以,我决定不让任何事情使我失去对神的信仰。

我第一天进大学的时候,我遇到了我的室友,告诉她:"我祈祷的方式有点不同。" 我真心感谢神赐给我这份勇气和力量,坦诚地告诉我的室友,因为这让我在房间里的祈祷变得容易得多。

在我在学校的五年里,我真心将自己奉献给了神。其中一个让我想到的经文是歌罗西书3:3:"因为你们已经死了,你们的生命与基督一同藏在神里面。" 我想强调这节经文的原因是,大学里,大家都在努力为自己争取名气,成为某种人,并且脱颖而出。每个人都在努力交尽可能多的朋友,加入尽可能多的社团。但是,因为我一直记着很容易迷失自我这一警告,所以我将这节经文铭记在心,我并没有那么投入,也没有那么在乎交朋友。

要服从。  Practicing good habits to put obedience into action is very important.  So, every day for that entire first year and beyond, I read and studied the bible.

安排我的神优先,不是安排我的行程优先。  虽然我住得离教会很远,但是在大学时代,我从未错过一次安息日。到教会需要两个小时,再回家也需要两个小时-----一个小时坐通勤火车,一个小时坐公车。但是每个星期五,当我要去搭火车回去过安息日的时候,我总是期待着它。每个星期六晚上,当我要回去的时候,我总是很伤心。我觉得我又要回到索多玛和蛾摩拉了。

即使这五年是孤独的时光,也是我亲近他的时光。孤独感在晚上睡前最强烈。但是我确实觉得每晚,当我上床睡觉的时候,神总是会安慰我,提醒我我并不孤单。

等待神的时机要有耐心——从找工作到一次搬家让我的家人来到教会。  I graduated after four years and went to another program and finished school in five years. My next big step was finding a job. I was very concerned because during my time in school, I hadn’t built up any working experience like internships. So, I felt that I wasn’t qualified for a lot of the entry-level positions that were posted. But I knew that God would take care of me. So first, I applied to so many positions, and for the first eight months after I graduated, I was unemployed. But then finally, in December of the year that I graduated, I got a phone call for an interview. This was also a great miracle because the position that they wanted to interview me for was for someone who had to have two years of experience. And I had none.  I don’t think that I’m that smart, but one thing that I do know about myself is that if God moves my heart to do something, I would do it. That has been my guiding principle in everything that I do since I’ve come to know Him.

所以我找到的这份第一份工作很好。这是一家很棒的公司,有很棒的同事和很棒的老板,我学到了很多。但是同年,我在和家人聊天时,我们都觉得德州的房地产市场很好,我们应该搬到那里开始新生活。从另一个角度来看,搬家的决定可能很困难,但对我来说,它很简单。如果我开始想 "我刚找到这份新工作,我所有的家人都在波士顿,我在这里更舒服,这是我熟悉的东西。" 这可能对我更困难。

但是,因为神感动我的心来德州,我就说:"好,我告诉我的公司我要离开,我会在德州找一份工作。" 在我找不到工作的那么长时间里,然后他给我找到一份工作,然后九个月后,我离开去达拉斯。我不确定我到那里的时候是否能买到房子。

祷告,信任和感恩。  搬家并不容易。我妈妈来看我,在那段时间里,她还没有圣灵。在她来访之前,她说了两件事。她说,如果她能接受圣灵,如果我能买到房子,她就会考虑搬家。

感谢神,她来访,我们每晚一起祷告,她接受了圣灵!然后,她以为我永远不可能有资格买新房,因为我是学生,刚找到新工作。当我有资格买房子时,想像一下她的惊讶。我在九月份搬家,十月份完成了交易。神总是照顾一切。在这段时间里,我最想到的经文是希伯来书11:8:"亚伯拉罕因着信,蒙召的时候就遵命出去,往将来要得为业的地方去;出去的时候,还不知往哪里去。"

灵性生态系统。  I went because I believed that God wanted me to move. And thank God that we were able to buy a new house, and that my whole family from Boston was able to come and live with me, and we were able to start a new life.  My whole family was always focused on God.  Even my stepdad also got baptized!

认识生活中真正重要的东西。  This brings me to where I am now in my faith. Thank God that it wasn’t hard for me to get a new job. And now if you heard from my aunt and uncle, they’re planning to open up a coffee shop. Although I have a great job building runways at the airport, most likely, I will quit my job and support them full-time. So, five years of college to be a barista.  But it’s the quality of life that is more important.  So just like everything in my life, worshipping God and making decisions can be very simple. Sometimes, I have made it more difficult for myself by thinking too much. But if I just do what God moves me to do and make the decision to do it, then it’s very simple.

我们的信仰之旅与你我拥有什么样的观念有关。这并不意味着我们没有忧虑,也不意味着我们不经历试炼和困难。我们都有这些。我们每个人都有这些,来伴随我们的信仰。但只要你和我专注于我们的主耶稣基督,这个世界中的一切都会变得很暗淡。然后当它变得很暗淡时,我们就会意识到,"那并不是我们生活中最重要的东西。"

所以我只是希望并祈祷,即使我变老了,我也能继续记住这些事情,始终过着我的生活,信任我看不见的东西,而不是依赖我自己的知识和经验。我知道,无论我知道多少,我永远不会比神知道的更多。

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