Experience of a 19-Year-Old Girl—Finding the Way to Be Free From Sin
Maru
the Philippines
I
am Maru from the Philippines and my whole family are all Christians.
I began to believe in the Lord from childhood and used to go to
church to listen to messages regularly every week. The pastors often
explained us James 4:4, “know you not that the friendship of the
world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the
world is the enemy of God.” Though acquainted with this verse, I
lived a life the
same as the unbelievers’. Every day my heart was fully occupied
with learning tasks and various kinds of activities in school. When
staying with my classmates, I always followed them to absent myself
from school to go to the shopping mall, and pursue worldly trends and
keep up with fads. Thus, I had no ample time to read the Bible or
pray to God and had no place for God in my heart at all. Every time
when hearing the pastor’s preaching, I would wish to change myself,
yet my life remained the same afterward.
