God is Real! Cont....

I had been brought up to believe in God, but at about the age of 14, I had started thinking about life. "Why are we alive?" "What is life?" "Why do we die?" "What is death?" I wanted to know what happened after death. Was there life after death? Is it reincarnation, or was it just blackness or nothingness, no consciousness? The end forever! I couldn't accept nothingness; it made everything, life itself, seem pointless and meaningless.

I was a fan of science fiction and all the sciences. I had formed my own opinion about how the world should be run. I believed Darwin was right. But I observed that the universe was so big and seemingly ordered, that I thought there must be something, somehow, controlling it.

It was at this stage of my thinking that I came to live in Tauranga. Here I was being told that God, who I was sure did not exist, was real! As explained earlier, "something clicked" and I suddenly realised the something I thought was controlling the universe had a name-GOD! He was real. I became a believer.

Next came three years of my boss speaking to me and giving me booklets to read, but I was reluctant to go to meetings and I remained in the social scene of the world. My boss would always ask me to go to this or that meeting, which I always refused, until one day I heard about a meeting at his house that he had not asked me to. I was piqued! I felt there was something that I was missing and being left out of, so I asked if I could go. I went and was captivated. Since then my wife has been saved; we were baptised together, and we are endeavouring to raise our six children to know the Lord as their Saviour. We hope you will get to know Him also! G.R

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