So now you know the beginning. However, this is not where it stopped. See, I became a Christian in my last 3 weeks in Lausanne before I was supposed to go back home to Germany.
So Jesus did a LAST MINUTE thing I would say. He is my hero!!!
It was hard for me to leave my first family in faith so soon.
In Germany, I had no clue where to go. In the state church, there were only old women and the pews were empty. Moreover, with my new fire, I felt I was too much for all these protestants.
Christine and my other new sisters from my bible study helped me to find a Christian student group at my university in Frankfurt.
However, in my first weeks, I had hard times to conquer. My fiance was not happy about my change. He got really jealous of the time I spent with Jesus and in the Bible and we had arguments every day. I was on this roller coaster of: This is the one I will marry and I should break up. In all this time, I had such good times with Jesus, though. Every day I found out something new in the Bible that fascinated me. I learned like a hungry scholar. After a month being back in Frankfurt, I realized that I needed to break up with my fiance of 5 years. See, we already had the chapel , we had the date, we had the invitations......CRAZY!
Let me just say it took God a lot to convince me to break up with my fiance. I was so emmeshed with him that every time I thought of seperation, I actually had a panic attack and problems to breathe. My heart would not go in the right way. Needless to say, I was a mess and I could not think of a life without that man because he still was my center.
I had become a Christian on January the 19th of 2000 and on March 30th, I broke up with him. Jesus helped me big time.
I was free but had a hard time to let go and let God cut the strings that held me down for so long.
I praised God that day: Free at last, I screamed, FREE at last!
more to come
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