It's a REAL-ationship!

Got a rare chance of talking to a friend of mine, Dino, while waiting for Hannah to finish with her interview with the Star yesterday. While we were talking, he somehow asked if I was Christian. It was only until then that I knew he was Christian as well. 

Dino is 55 years old this year. He seems like a successful businessman now, full of confidence, has a happy family and he doesn't look 55 at all! What I didn't know was that years ago, he had a broken marriage, had a divorce, had a business and went bankrupt, and had multiple health problems from drinking too much all the time. Everything just seemed hopeless to him at that time. It wasn't long that he found a VCD on the gospel in his house (how it was there,I didn't ask). He watched the VCD and tears just came flowing down his cheeks,not out of sadness but joy, and HOPE. 

Since then, his life changed totally. He remarried, has a 14-year-old son now, and his business has been greater than ever! He was sharing on how God changed the way he acts daily. Whenever he goes for a business presentation, he'll pray and surrender everything to God first, and even when he's discussing business, he never lets go of an opportunity to share the gospel if there was one. He told how he just cried out to God when his then 12-year-old son was addicted to online gaming,and it wasn't long before God taught him how, and his son is now a very passionate leader in his church CG. He shared so much of how REAL God has been in his life with so much passion and a spark in his eyes. He wasn't just sharing some story about his life, rather it was about his relationship with God. 

His story struck me. I could still remember the times where God just seemed so REAL to me and my relationship with Him was all that I longed for. It was a timely reminder for me that the key to see a TRANSFORMATION in my life is NOT by all the superficial things that I do. It's not even by how much I know about the Bible or how much I serve in church. It's about the DESIRE to have a REAL relationship with Him. 

I long to experience Him in a very real way again. To start my every day just excited to hear from Him. To go through my daily activities with a desire to please Him with all that I do. I long for Jesus to transform me with His love and grace. After all, this is not just any relationship. He wants to have a REAL-ationship with me, and I in him. 

p/s:PRAY for me, that I will seek Him and His righteousness first and long for nothing more than His love. I really long to see Him in my life & people to experience Him through me. That will be my prayer for you too. 

"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:38-39)

God bless.