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| A Home Away from Home |
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Irene Nee
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As a foreign student studying in this country, I often felt lonely and empty. Many times I wanted to drop my studies and go back home to be with my family. I wondered why I had to experience so many things by myself in a foreign land. I started to question the point for me to be on this earth.
One day on campus, two Christians came to me and invited me to a Friday Christian students gathering. I went with curiosity. In that meeting I was touched by the warm atmosphere. Looking at the people there and the different dishes of food on the table, I started to wonder who they were and what made them pour out themselves on strangers like me. I felt I was at home away from home.
My new Christian friends taught me the meaning of my human life. I started to realize that I wasn’t made to go through all the human sufferings and then die. I was made with a higher meaning. I was made to contain God. I prayed to receive God as my Lord and Savior. Not long after I became a believer in Christ Jesus, I started to experience Him as another life inside of me. A lot of things that I used to do I could do no more. They helped me to know the Lord and the word.
Many years have passed and my experiences with the Lord are still fresh. He is real and living in me. I am still far away from home, but I feel I am at home with all these dear believers.
