By the God of all grace, I had an amazing weekend in Simi Valley partying it up with my fellow Cornerstoners and brothers and sisters from EBC! I want to say thank you so much for the fun moments that we have together and I truly would love to return the favor by being a blessing to you and a channel of the awesome grace of our God poured out to us from His unfailing passion to glorify His Awesome Holy Name. I also want to add that I felt so loved by God in a way that I never have before in all of the days of my life that I have existed. Thank you for everything!!
As an autistic, I have come to the realization that I do not hate having it anymore. I actually have embraced it and I know why I have! An awesome friend Mark Balylult told me yesterday that he was encouraged to see a life without Christ (since I didn't grow up in the church and he did, it helped him to see that) and a life that was hopeless and didn't have any future, a life filled with years of rejection, and then that life, by the grace of God, through faith in Jesus Christ and accepting His wonderful love, changed drastically into one that is radiant with the incomparable riches of the grace of God and will be more radiant of that in the future. I was so encouraged to hear that from Mark and I am grateful to him for it. And now this brings me to this wonderful realization.
In Ephesians 2, Paul starts this simple chapter with what a non-Christian looks like. He is dead in sins and is following the hopeless Gods of the world and by nature is a son of disobedience and wrath. (2:1-3) That was me before I became a Christian and this is illustrated by the fact that I have hated God and have followed the gods of the world that do not satisfy and I have put up with lonliness and rejection my whole life. But then Paul talks about the unconditional rich and great love and mercy of our God that saves us through Christ making us alive and even better, seating us in the heavenly places! (2:4-6) This is so true with me and my life became filled with love for God and acceptance by God on account of Jesus Christ and also by the amazing brothers and sisters that God is only STARTING to get me involved with. Wow! This is unspeakable and indescribable just the amazing grace of our God that He is offering to all creation. I am blown away by what my life looked like before and what it looks like today because of God. I plead with all those who don't know the love of Christ receive Him by faith so that you can expereince such a life change that I have!!
Now in verse 7, Paul gives the big reason why God saved me and why seeks out a relationship with His lost creation, "so that in the coming ages, He might SHOW the incomparable riches of His GRACE, expressed in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus!" Two things come to my mind when I ponder this life-changing passage of Scripture.
1. Salvation is about me??? It is not! It is all about God and His wonderful passion to glorify the inexhaulstible wealth of His grace!! That is the chief reason why God saved Paul. (1 Timothy 1:15-17) This is incredibly humbling as I have come to see just how God has reminded me that He and His grace and my enjoyment of Him forever is what his saving acts are all about!! It is also my greatest security because God's righteous unchanging passion to glorify His grace is my only hope of grace and it is the only hope for sinners.
2. I want to be a testimony of grace to both my brothers and sisters at Cornerstone and at EBC as well as to a lost and dying world. God took a guy who was autistic and had no hope and turned his life around and blessed him abundantly. My life is literally a living testimony of hope and I pray that God will break down all of the pride in me so that His grace and continue to shine like a sun shines on the earth. And I know that is why I am a student at EBC and why I am passionate to be involved with the community there. And God is so good that He is going to work wonderful displays of Himself through me there in the future. I pray that all unbelievers will be convicted by this awesome display of power and give their lives to Christ so that they can undergo a simliar unique transformation of life that I have experienced. I would love it if all you guys can actually help me to actually be a display of grace in light of the seemingly insigificant affliction of autism!
I want to thank all of you for taking the time to get to know me and I am pleading with God for a closer relationship with all of you and I can't wait to see you in the future.
Rejoicing in God with you all, Kevin Chu
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