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God's Not Boring! – Tracy Wong
I was lucky enough to be born into a Christian family and grew up attending Sunday school listening to Bible stories and singing in worship, but I had never seriously committed myself to Christ when I was younger. I took everything at church for granted and never thought about it seriously. It was only strangely after watching my first communion that I genuinely began to think about where I was with Christ and what he had done for us. Not baptized yet, I was unable to take the communion, but I felt that I wanted to get to know Jesus better so that I would believe I would be ready to be baptized and take communion. I felt that when I truly began to believe, an empty space that I never knew existed was filled. It was then that I began to take more interest in church and to attend service with my parents. However, because the sermons were done in Chinese and I often found them dull and tedious, they weren’t interesting to me. I had trouble getting to know God better and was getting increasingly frustrated and unhappy with school and friends. Driving myself to gain good marks, I was working myself to the point where my teacher came up to me and told me to learn to relax. I was beginning to lose faith, and lose God.
About a year after I joined my parents in service, my mom decided to send me to the English summer Youth Camp at ECBC. I was hesitant at the beginning since I didn’t know anyone there and was worried that the sermons would bore me just like the ones I listened to every Sunday. With much more nagging from my mom, joined by my desire to understand Christ better, I decided to have courage and joined the camp. It wasn’t boring. I didn’t have any problems understanding anything. In fact, I was enjoying listening about God. I was getting to know Him and was having fun all the way. It was truly a miracle for me, and I began to trust in Christ once again. Youth camp was a life turning experience for me.
After I came back home I began to change, not just spiritually but also in my daily life. I began to not worry about the future so much, leaving it in the hands of God to decide, and started to relax and loosen up much more when it came to school and my overall life. As I entered high school, I made more friends and was happier and more confident of myself than I ever had been before. Through this experience, I gained more courage to speak more and learned to reach out to people. Yes, I still struggle and have problems. But now I truly believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and through Him I know that I have eternal life.