My story with God

Praise God for his goodness and for his mercies. Praise God for his unfailing love and protection in all my path. I began my the long Journey to inherit the king dome of God by faith years ago. I began my journey after I heard the call that he(God) would help me get over all my problems that I had at the time. I was in trouble at the time, for I was struggling with various problems. It was at this time, I decided to take time to argue with God through the means I had at the time, which was through writing. I took a pen and a notebook in the middle of the night and started writing all what comes to my mind. I wrote down all what comes to my mind and all what I had in my mind. I took out all the issues I had in my mind , and put them on the paper. I write them down as it comes, without proper organisation, thought of how to put them. I started writing all that came to my mind, all the good thought, the bad thought, all the feelings, and the emotions, the sadness, the anger, frustration, heart, the dilemma , the uncertainty, the hopelessness , and the pain. It feels great for I was able to take all out of my mind , though I was not sure to whom I was sharing it. The only thing I remember well is , that I wrote everything that came to my mind, and the last thought that made me to stop writing,

it was during this time a thought came to me , it says God would help me get over all these problems I was facing. That was the time I stopped writing convinced by the thought came to me. That was the last thing I do remember, I stopped writing and and went back to sleep .The first thing I thought about in the morning was the thought that I had at night. When I thought about it further, i was convinced more that God would help me. Though I didn't necessarily know it was a call of God to save me , until later. Then I continued thinking about how he would help me and a thought came to me immediately was that i need to go to a church. When I though about it further i am convinced that I should go to a church. When I thought about going to the church, the only thing came to my mind was one of the church I used to go to when I was at the Addis Ababa University. I thought it was far for I was living in my brothers house , which was located to the outskirt of the city. However, I carried forward thinking for i was convinced to go to a church.

In the process , a thought came to my mind, I remembered seeing some people dropping off the bus and going to a church, which was located closer to the place I was living at the time. What I did was I went to the place where I saw these people drop off the bus to wait for them and go to where they go. The good thing was, I did find them and followed them to the church where they were going. I went and sat at the back , and listened the sermon and went home. I did this for two weeks, I believe it was on the third week I observed something new when I looked around . The first thing I observed was that ladies would sit in one side and men the other side. I soon observed that all the ladies would only dress a long skirt. The other thing I observed was that people worship God in truth , I could see most people worship God with love. In fact that compelled me to ask one question for the first time , i thought to myself that there should be something I missed to know God. So, I decided to talk to someone who were siting beside me , and he happened to encouraged me , and introduced me to the ministers. They encouraged and prayed for me. I believed it when I thought about the series of things that happened. However, the real understanding about the church I went to, and many important things like , faith, the bible , the God of the bible , and what we should do to build relationship to this God , came later. I learned about the God of the bible , the gospel of Jesus Christ through a pastor of the church in the city i grew up. It happened when I want for summer vacation, the pastor sat down with me and taught me about the bible, One God, salivation, and the responsibility of a man. Once I heard all what he taught me all these I was convinced it was true and it was at this moment hope was created in me. This was the time I was convinced to believe in God , and all the things of God. This was the time I decided to follow Jesus believing the gospel.

That is where my Journey with God started. It was started with his own call, giving me to direction to the truth , and help me to understand the truth, baptism in his name. Here , I am with him , hoping and fulfilling my salivation. Here I am standing with his protection, and depending on his helping hand , his mercy and his love. I am here determined to stand and go with him all the way. I bless his name.