CYN chapter 1

This was the letter and testimony that I wrote to the CYNs last year..I really felt like Paul when I was doing and rewriting it so ye. Chapter 1

A letter to the CYNs

October 17, 2010

CYNs!

I just wanna write to you on the message that we had last Friday. I'm really compelled to write a letter about it because I know it would be helpful for you to ponder on this. Don't worry, it's not about your faith- the word of God says that we should look intently in the mirror meaning, it's personal. I can't look at the mirror and tell you your blemishes.. (James 1:22-25) You should see it yourself by carefully digging in the Scriptures.

I just wanna share to you m testimony which I forgot to do last Friday. I'm pretty old now to be a CYN and back when I was 13, I didn't really focus that much on the word of God. I was 16 when I got to university and I would share to you one thing: I had this Psychology and Philosophy professor who doesn't believe in God and we always had atheism discussions. My faith was shaken like I never knew before.

But one thing got me back on track-it was remembering the lives of the people that I've been with growing up- generations after generations that was changed by the word of God. I've seen a living faith multigenerationally, like what Paul saw in Timothy (2 Timothy 1:5) I thought to myself, “What did this professor has taught me? Where did they get their teachings from?” from Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell people who ended in mental breakdown. People who has not lived up to what they're talking about.

The Word of God may not appear to you like nice cheesy quotes right now but take time to diligently study it now.It is an investment for life; set your hearts to do it. It's like learning to swim before you drown.. I tell you it's not just an atheist professor but all of culture will try to pull you away from Scripture.

You might be on the pews every Sunday, attending small groups, and you think that the two hours you spend in church is the longest hour of your life, take heart dude, we are learning with God altogether.. this is the way the God of the universe can relate and speak to us.

Joshua 1:8 Do not let this book of the law depart from your mouth, meditate on it day and night.....

If you say that you are busy, you can't have the time doing it, it's like saying you don't really want to do it and you have no time for the God who gave you everything.... You always find time studying lessons, facebooking, watching TV, doing random things, texting, talking to your friends and doing crazy things and you think this is a guilt trip.

Seriously, we are all guilty. But this is not the reason why I wrote this letter because if this is a guilt trip, we won't be able to sustain it, we will quit the work of God right away.


Love hugs and prayers,

ate sarah