MY PAST:

I grew up in a Christian family. My father is a pastor of a church. However, growing up in a Christian atmosphere did not make me a Christian. I have chosen to hang around with a wrong group of people. The good part being a preacher's kid is that I knew all along what was right and what was wrong. The problem was that I could not overcome my wrong doing. I did many things that I still regret and ashamed of.

In my high school, I was almost expelled from the school if it were not because of my father. All these behaviours dragged me away from God but He has never forsaken me. I was experiencing what Paul described in Romans 7:22-24 saying, "For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the member of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?" I was desperate. Finally I called upon Jesus to save me from all those behaviours. I accepted Christ as my saviour and my lord. He changed me from inside out just like Paul said in II Corinthians 5:17 - "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"

I am very convinced: Had not Jesus saved me and transformed me, I would have been spending time in jail even now. Thank God that Paul did not end the book of Romans at 7:24. In 7:25 says: "Thanks be to God - through Jesus Christ our Lord."

I am very grateful that God brought me to United States and brought me to Auburn, to learn and grow in His word and in His church. I would never have thought in those years that I will be teaching in an American university as a Professor (I am boasting in Christ). For me, it is a miracle in my life: being set free from those sins. How can people say Jesus is not REAL?

To close, I would like to quote a definition of freedom: Real freedom is to have the power to do the RIGHT things, rather than doing whatever you want to do. And I am experiencing the real freedom in Jesus Christ, my Lord and my Saviour.

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