Meeting God: it all started with Alpha [Gabey's Testimony, 15 Aug 2014]

 

As I looked around at Alpha intro din 3014, I see familiar faces, not that I know them personally, but faces of curiosity and doubt. How I looked or felt last year.

 

If you ask me have I ever thought I will be standing here and speaking at Alpha Intro din, my answer would have been a flat NO last year; this is just not something I will do.  I will probably roll my eye ball at whoever asked me to do this (I am quite famous at rolling my eye ball haha). 


My journey started simple. 2 old friends told me about their journeys with Jesus over a casual dinner and I went like “Really, are you sure?? Don’t sales-talk me hor!”

Then one of them asked me to her place to understand Jesus better and I went “Hmm…and hmm” I was hesitant. 

But then I thought to myself, if I had a lot of question marks on what they told me and so why not go and get some answers? Anyway there is no obligation?

Then came the best part (at the time), there is free dinner every week!! So I thought, why not, just take it that they are catch up sessions with 2 of my friends. I will turn up whenever I can cos I do not usually finish work on time (I knocked off earliest like 8pm daily).

At that point, when I told my friends (non-Christians) that I am attending Alpha class by the church every Wednesdays and small group every alternate Fridays much later, all of them had the same reaction. First, jaw drop, then, after regaining their posture like 10 seconds later, they will be like “You, you, Gabey, attending Alpha class? Please, don’t waste time and just come to our usual activities of hanging out on Fridays night. You won’t complete it, you can’t even knock off on time!” They just laughed it off.

Surprisingly, every Wednesday, I knock off at 7pm sharp and I went. I had dinner, and watch a video clip EVERY week. I became a bit puzzled cos I almost never knock off on time at work! So I became curious and I question, I question a fair bit, some out loud. I am known to be a 101 questions girl, so my leaders patiently answered my questions. 

Then came Alpha weekend, I was very certain I could not make it cos there was a major launch that weekend and it was confirmed. Guess what! The launch got postponed by a week and I went for the Alpha weekend :O :O

The journey, by far is amazing. I met lots of great people, that, I never knew existed in life.

I got to know much later that my friend told the girl who invited me to Alpha “You want to ask Gabey uh, this girl is a tough nut to crack leh!” I thank her for her perseverance and here I am.

In my opinion, I think it is ok to doubt, search and question.  I doubted, I searched and I questioned (I still question today), but I found! 


The key is to have an open mind, in order to be able to receive the answer.  Do not over-think, keep it simple. You will never know what you will find, like me. I found the best part and it is not the dinner though it was delicious! It is KNOWING THE LORD JESUS CHRIST PERSONALLY!