“Before Christ came into my heart, I had an empty life. Only when He came into my heart that I had joy in life.”
I was born in an ordinary family. However, I had many of the things a teen-ager in my province wanted to have such as girls (who were ordinary like me), many friends, and popularity (at least within my very small and ordinary world). Because of these things I was very happy. However, deep inside me I felt empty.
Despite the pleasure of sex, security of having many friends, and nice feeling of having fans in those days, my life had no meaning. If there is a tree that looks nice in the outside but has a hollow trunk and branches, I was like this tree.
I say this because although I was happy, I had no joy. I had joy only when Christ came into my heart. This joy is real not only when my circumstances are good, but also when my circumstances are bad. The happiness I once had existed only during good times but not during lonely moments.
Joy is an experience the common mind cannot understand because it can only be given by Christ to those He indwells in the heart. Surely, there are many things the world can give us. Joy is not one of them.
(This is a testimony I shared last December 18, 2009 at a Japanese women's fellowship, at the request of their leader.- Marlon)
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