Unto A Certain Destiny

I’ve found the One of peerless worth at a very young age. I was fortunate enough to be born and raised in a Christian family in the Lord’s recovery. I am a typical third-generation Christian where home, school and meeting hall was my usual environment. I grew up attending children’s meeting, young people’s meeting and the Lord’s Table meeting. It was the entire world to me. But as far as knowing Christ, He was still objective to me, until such time that I was brought to the water of baptism that I begun to experience Him in a subjective way. Although high school days had a very big influenced to me to be associated with worldly things but it never caused me to be lukewarm in enjoying the Lord and the church life.
It was during college days that I was exposed to the world. I studied in a university that is quite far away from home. I made friends with unbelievers, I tasted the worldly pleasures and sometimes I could not see myself different from them. But praise the Lord, God selected me and then marked me beforehand, before the foundation of the world, unto a certain destiny. I was caught by the love and shepherding of the full-timers assigned in our campus through our campus work and one-on-one pursuit of the truth. I had a great turned, back to my first love who is Christ Himself. After my tertiary level, I consecrated myself to join the Fulltime Training in Malabon (FTTM).

Lovely And Perfect Environment
I joined the 31st batch of the FTTM. My whole being was prepared to be trained and be perfected in life, truth, gospel and service. I was conditioned to it that I did not experienced hardship but enjoyment. I truly treasured the first year of my training wherein I was fully fed with the rich supply of the ministry. I would see to it that every session I would gain a certain amount of Christ. I became an enjoyer of the truths, everyday it seems that I couldn’t get enough. What a lovely and perfect environment to be soaked, saturated and permeated with the Triune God! I also experienced being dealt with by the Lord that made be broken into pieces. It was a great opportunity for me to know the Lord more in a much deeper way. I proceeded for another 2 years of training. I became involved in the literature works wherein I coordinated with the saints assigned in the New Man publication. I found joy and peace coordinating in this kind of work. I also learned the value of coordination when I was assigned for propagation work into various places like Bulacan, Laguna, Cavite, Bicol Region, and Iloilo City. I was teamed up with different trainees having their own dispositions. But the Lord never let propagation passed without working Himself in me. He is the inner operating God, stitching and mending my character to fully fit with others. Three years of staying in the training center just passed by so quickly that I have to decide whether to be a money-making full-timer or a job dropping one. Then, I finally decided to work as a money-making full-timer.

The Lord As Our Satisfaction
After the training, I served for a couple of months in our locality as a local full-timer. Serving with other full-timers my heart was enlarged and broadened as we worked with a burden in an environment wherein the real battle happened. My experienced of the Lord during those times was of another level. It was in a higher level that I consecrated myself to the Lord that whatever I do, it will be for His economy. Then I worked in a call center industry for almost two years. The pay was quite good. I could buy anything I want and I also can give something for the Lord. But deep within me is a sense of dissatisfaction. Praise the Lord that Christ is the bread of life for those who are laboring at the feast of the Passover and He is the living water that can quench the thirst for those who are resting and enjoying at the feast of Tabernacle. Only the Lord Himself can be our satisfaction. Nothing in this world is adequate to fill my hunger and quench my thirst. In His sovereignty, He changed my environment.

Living By and Of Faith
The Lord in His multifarious wisdom prepared a counterpart for me who also love Him to the uttermost. He could never be wronged in His arrangement and in His ways. My environment completely changed. We just got married and presently we are serving in the province of Bulacan, both of us also are coordinating in the training center in a matter of teaching and service. Although unworthy vessels we are, yet, we found favor in the eyes of God. We don’t know about tomorrow because we are just living from day to day, a living by and of faith. Now, we have a baby, an additional member of the Body of Christ, an increase of Christ, who would help us in carrying the burden of God’s economy to the churches where we are serving now. May the Lord carry us through that we will be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that our labor is not in vain in the Lord. (1Cor 15:58) Amen.