Friday, October 2, 2009

Why I am Here at EBC

I have had to question lately why I am going to EBC!! Why am I a student at their school??? Why did God place me in such a wonderful learning enviroment for me to passionately engage in holy communion with Him and to display His beauty for all too see?? Another puzzling question is I now need to figure out why I have been crashing in Simi Vallley all of these times??? Is it just some random chance?? I don't believe it for a second. (Proverbs 16:33) I am absolutely confident that God is showing is goodness to me by deliberately placing me in Simi Valley all of these times because He wants to manifest another aspect of His beauty towards me. I believe that He is sovereignly using these chain of events (Ephesians 1:11, Daniel 4:35) as a means of bringing me closer to Him through the EBC and Cornerstone community. I want to say that I haven't been to a church that has reflected the glory of God in the image of Christ (2 Corinthians 4:3-6) better than this church has and I am just so thankful for all of you. Christ, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:26-27) is clearly seen. I can say with absolute confidence that it is no act of randomness that I have crashed in Simi Valley all of those times. (Matthew 10:29) So why has God deliberately placed me in Simi Valley. Well I believe there are two reason. One He wants me to savor His beloved son in the brothers and sisters of EBC and Cornerstone Community Church. The other is that He wants me to be a display of Christ to these people and also to those who don't know the gospel. (Mark 16:15, Ezekiel 33:1-11) I was diagnosed with autism when I was three years old. It is a disability that I am still fighting today. As a result, my social skills and communication skills are far behind and also I was a turn-off in high school. This is still evident in some of the social mishaps that I have committed even last weekend at Cornerstone Community Church. But when I got saved almost 4 years ago God turned my life around and gave me hope in Him. (Psalm 42:5, Colossians 1:13-14) And I am ever so grateful to Him that He has given me the willpower and determination to overcome autism for the glory of His name at Simi Valley. I want to be a display of the TRIUMPHANT grace of God, the kid that was a nobody in the past (hated by others) into someone loved by God and Christ!!! It has been my great prayer that God will bend me into the kind of man that HE wants to use for His glory.I am now working on moving down to Simi Valley permanetly. I am doing this because I feel that God is calling me to live there so that I can be an example of how God's triumphant grace shines in somebody who as a former nobody into somebody that is loved by God and by Jesus Christ in others!! I wanted to say that it is a tremendous joy to be around you all because CHRIST (the perfect glory of God) shines so brightly in you. And I want to apologize for all of the social errors I may have made with you while I was hear. I look forward to what God will do with me in the future here at EBC and Cornerstone. This is Kevin longing for your joy in God and to savor Christ in you all, signing off with this verse!!In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.Romans 8:26-27

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