My God Encounter

David’s Encounter

My life story begins in the country of Romania where I was born.  My parents migrated over to Chicago when I was around 4 years old for a better life both for themselves and for us.  Growing up my father worked most of the time like most immigrant fathers and my mother was overwhelmed with 4 children and a country she knew nothing about.  I believed in the existence of God but felt like He was some far off being that had little if any relevance in my life, sure I respected Him (or so I thought) but I felt like ‘hey, this is my life’.  I was an only boy and from a very early age tried to find myself.  When I say that what I mean is I was just trying to find my nitch, my purpose.  I definitely grew up in an abusive environment and knew very little if anything about real love.  I grew up with a lot of resentment and anger towards my father and it definitely grew with consistency the older I got.  By the time I was almost a teen I already started getting high and hanging out on the block with the gang-members.  To me I could relate to them, I felt like this could be my family where we could care for one another and do whatever we wanted.  My heart was filled with anger and I didn’t even know why; I just had a F— the world mentality.  By the time I was in the heat of my teenage years I was heavily involved in the street life, selling drugs, staying high and drunk as a lifestyle and representing my Crew above all else.  Everything appeared to be going good for me, circumstantially I was living a life of crime and putting my life and the lives of others in jeopardy on a daily basis, but it meant nothing to me, after all I was just doing my thing.  Until one day in 1998 when my whole world got rocked.  I was just driving down the street when all of a sudden the light switch just turned on; and I heard the voice of God.  Not only was I freaking out because I was hearing a voice but it continued on for the entire day and the next as well.  On the first day of my supernatural encounter with God, He revealed to me not only who He was which was completely holy and other than anything I had ever known.  He also revealed to me myself, and for the first time I saw who I was; not in comparison to the next guy or my culture or my friends or dreams but in light of who he created me to be.  I supernaturally saw how black my heart was, how selfish I was, how my entire life was centered around my happiness and well being, my pleasure, my dignity, MY-MY-MY.  I stood before the Judge of all life-GUILTY, I was going to hell and I deserved it.  I went to sleep in fear for my soul, I felt naked before God, I couldn’t front with Him, He saw me just as I was.  The next morning I woke up and fell out of bed weeping uncontrollably with what felt like rivers of love and electricity flowing through my entire person.  I cannot even attempt to explain in words what happened to me that day.  I knew then that this is what I have been subconsciously seeking for all of my life and I didn’t even know it.  It was all so different than the previous day, God told me He is the Father and that He loves me and has always loved me more than I could ever imagine.  That He sent His Son into the world to die on my behalf, in essence to receive the just punishment that I deserved.  He told me how He had a plan for my life that would stretch into eternity with Him.  That he didn’t send His Son into the world to make bad men into better or good men but to make dead men alive.  Spiritually alive where we can know and experience Him and spend eternity with Him.  I asked God to forgive me and told Him that for the rest of my life I would follow His plan for my life.  I felt so clean and light, as if the cares of the world got lifted of my shoulders.  I have been following Christ for the past 11 years, and I can still say with the same confidence and more that I love God with all my heart and that He is everything to me.  He has changed my life and is changing my life; I don’t say that as some sort of cliché statement, but in a very real and tangible way.  Jesus Christ is the blueprint to life, and if you don’t have Him you don’t have anything.

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