God changed me/神改變了我

If you are in good health, have a relatively good job, loving family, no bad habit, and feeling like you are on top of your game; then you need God.

如果你身體健康，有個不錯的工作，愛你的家人，沒有壞習慣，感覺你已經在生命的頂點了；那麼你需要神。

My name is Yu-Jen, for some strange reason, my life has always been surrounded by those so called trouble makers, rebels of the society. Even in the place where I first met God.

我的名字是Yu-Jen，不知道爲什麽，我的生命總是圍繞著那些所謂問題人物，社會中的反叛者，即使是在我初遇上帝的地方。

I got saved in a church where most of the members had a rough lifestyle before they came to God, drug addict, gangster, alcoholic, everyone holds their unique testimony of God’s power and love. But that is also why I found it hard to share my testimony in my early days, because on the very same stage, all my friends would get up and shout “I was a drug addict, but God changed me” “I was a ruthless gang member, but God changed me”

在我認識神的教會裡，大部份的成員在來到上帝前都有著一段艱辛的生活，毒品上癮者，流氓，酒鬼，每個人都有一份獨特的故事見證著神的能力與愛。這也是爲什麽在早期我對分享我的故事感到困難，因為在那同一個舞臺，我所有的朋友會站起來大喊“我曾經對毒品上癮，但神改變了我”“我曾經是一個兇狠的幫派分子，但神改變了我”

YES! I have a relationship with God too, God did change me, and I certainly feel his presence in my life. But, I never used drug, I wasn’t a gangster, I don’t even have any bad habits that I know of. And on top of that, I was studying the graphic design that I always dreamed of, had a part-time job that pays all my bills, I was already happier than most of the people around me. So I struggled to share my testimony, because I felt like I couldn’t put out a story as spectacular as all my friends do.

沒錯！我也和上帝有關係，神的確改變了我，而我也無疑的感受到他在我的生命中。但是，我從來沒有用過毒品，我也不是一個流氓，我甚至沒有什麽我知道的壞習慣。還不只這樣，我當時正在讀我一直夢想的平面設計，有個能夠付我所有帳單的兼職工作，我那時已經比我身邊的人都還要滿足了。所以我一直掙扎著分享我的生命見證，因為我覺得我不能講出一段像我朋友們一樣精彩的故事。

Years past by, I’ve learned that God uses my life in a certain way to reach out to people. I realized God can detoxify a drug addict, but He is not just a rehab center. He can take people out of depression, but He is not just a psychologist. Beyond all those materialistic problems, God is the only one that can quench our spiritual thirst, only He can provide the eternal peace and joy unto our heart. And that’s exactly what my testimony is about - the true satisfaction within.

幾年過後，我學習到神如何利用我的生命去觸摸到其他人。我瞭解到神可以解一個吸毒者的癮，但他不只是一間勒戒所。他可以幫助人們走出低潮，但他不只是一位心理醫生。超越所有這一切外表物質問題，上帝是唯一一位能夠解我們靈魂精神上的渴，只有它能夠提供我們心靈所需的永恆平安和喜樂，而這就是我生命所見證的 – 內心真正的滿足。

However, since it’s all about spiritual sensation, I always have hard time to put my testimony in words to express what God has done in my life, because I’m not good with words; I don’t know any big words to describe the joyfulness that springs out of my heart, I can’t put together the feeling of being in love into a fancy line.

但是，由於這都是精神上的感觸，我現在還是不太會把上帝在我生命中的所為用文字來敘述，因為我不太會說話寫作；我不知道任何漂亮的字眼來形容我心中湧出的那份歡樂，我不懂怎麼把充滿愛的感覺寫成一段華麗的文章。

All I can say is that God has given me the love and joy nothing else can bring. Even though at the time I felt like I had it all. Felt like I didn’t need God, I was making money, I was physically healthy, I lived in a beautiful country, I had friends, but it was all nothing compares to my later experience with God.

我所能夠說的就是上帝給我的那份愛和喜樂是其他人事物無法帶來的。即使當時我覺得已經擁有了一切，覺得不需要神，我不缺錢，我身體健康，住在一個美麗的國家，我有朋友，但這一切都遠遠都不能和我後來與神在一起的體驗相比。

So let me say it again.

所以讓我再說一次

If you are in good health, have a relatively good job, loving family, no bad habit, and feeling like you are on top of your game just like I did; you definitely need God.

如果你身體健康，有個不錯的工作，愛你的家人，沒有壞習慣，跟我當時一樣感覺你已經在生命的頂點了；那麼你一定需要神。