August 19th, 2009
One confrontation that took me to Him
My one story took place four years ago, when I first met my wife, Martina. At the time, we were separated by 4000 miles and an ocean and got to know one another by chatting online.
As time moved on, we began to realize that we wanted to try and make a relationship out of our commonalities, despite the distance. We began to talk more and more and realized that we wanted to be together.
Distance aside, there was another stumbling block, though I didn’t know it at the time: I was raised in the Catholic Church and stopped going when my parents stopped going, immediately following their divorce, when I was 9 years old. I began to grow apart from God as my love of science and theory took over. Any hint of faith I had that there was a higher power was being clouded over by my hunger for knowing how and why things work, something which I could not explain nor comprehend when it came to God.
It wasn’t until I met Martina 11 years later that the thought of even considering whether there was a God would cross my mind again. As our relationship deepened, we came to a fork in the road: Martina had been talking to some of her Christian friends about how we were falling for one another, yet was concerned to move forward with a man who didn\’t know Jesus, let alone have him as number one priority in their life. They told her she needed to confront me about it and one night, she did just that. She told me that for the first time, she wasn’t prepared to enter into a relationship without knowing that it was what God had intended for her and that she knew she needed to be with someone who knew God intimately.
It was a very odd thing to experience – I didn’t want to lose this woman that I cared deeply about, but at the same time, I was considering going against what I had been telling myself for the past 11 years.
Well, I made the right choice and discovered a relationship with God. It was like nothing I could have ever imagined and now myself and Martina are happily living together and married, under the authority and guidance of Him, all thanks to that one confrontation.
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