I could not really recall the exact date that I received Jesus into my heart, but I prayed a few times to receive Jesus, as I was not very sure of the Lord takes notice of my prayers. My life before I came to know the Lord was a normal life. Normal meaning studying, playing, coming home, nothing drastic or spectacular. The time that I accepted or prayed the sinner's prayer was during primary 5, at a Girls' Brigade service. It was a sermon talking about God's judgment and heaven and hell. I was quite scared then, I remembered that my heart was racing, so I decided to pray the sinner's prayer so as to be saved. After the sermon there was an altar call, then one of my teachers came to talk to me and assured me of God's love for me. Then she lad me in the sinner's prayer again. The prayer as I remembered that I admit that I have sinned and that I believed that Jesus had died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead on the third day. That now I accept Jesus into my heart to be my Lord and Savior.

After that, I was a Christian in name. No one taught me how to have a personal walk, but I know about praying. Hence, sometimes I prayed. However, something happened in primary 6. After going on to primary 6, I found that I was separated from my best friends in primary 5, and thus I had very few or no friends then. Friends were very important to me, having no friends made me very lonely in school. As I looked back now, I see that it was the Lord who put me through this trial, so as to pull me closer to him. I had no one to talk to, I begin to talk more to Jesus. I would remember spending hours in my room praying to Jesus, telling Him all my problems. I was very upset, and cried many times to the Lord, telling Him how lonely I was, how say I am. And every night, the Lord comforted me and gave me peace. Jesus was my best friend. Although during my year in primary 6, Jesus did not bring any friends to me, but He blessed me in other ways, like by giving me good grades in PSLE and even many friends in secondary one. One of the greatest thanksgiving to God then and even now is that Jesus is my best friend. He always listen to me whenever I cried out to Him. Always very patient, even when I kept repeating myself and saying super-long prayers to him. He never fails to give me peace and new strength so that I can continue in my walk with him. Since then, I've grown stronger in the Lord, knowing that I can only depend on Jesus and that I need not feel lonely and down, because Jesus will always be with me.

As a young Christians then the Lord already extended His love towards me, and fill my empty and lonely heart with his everlasting love, healing me of my wounds and pains. My Christian walk began from the fear of god and his judgment to experiencing His love for me, the love that drives out fear.

"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because He first loved us" 1 John 4:18-19

I thank God for reaching out to me, and I want to respond to His love and be so filled with his love that it overflows to people around me.