Emily's Testimony

Being in the Business School with an accounting concentration and a Chinese minor, I am constantly made aware of the fast-paced and stress-driven world around us. Already this quarter, I've been forced to re-consider the goals of my college education.

The vast majority of students in my field are striving for the upper hand in their classes by excelling academically while actively establishing connections via internships and interviews, all with the view of laying a solid foundation for their future career.

While I also struggle to succeed academically and scope out advantageous internships or job opportunities, I have to confess that my heart is not for the tangible rewards offered today, but rather it is captured and "wrecked" by something, someone much better.

I don't think it is very common to hear people say that they love the Lord Jesus. How many people do you know who love Christ? You may wonder what sort of person loves someone they have never seen with their own eyes. I often wonder the same thing. But when you've used your spirit (the deepest part of your being) to substantiate the things of God, you can never deny that God indeed is real.

Try proclaiming from the depths of your being that God is not real. Any sincere and deep person would have to be convicted in their heart that there exists a God.

So what is God doing? Why do we, as minute human beings, exist on earth? Our purpose is to be daily filled, little by little, with God's own divine life. As we open everyday, He gains a little more of our being, and thus His expression on earth is enlarged in a gradual way.

I very much appreciate Christian Students Association on the UW campus, as I can meet with other seeking Christians who desire to pursue the Lord. To me it is very precious to fellowship with other believers who are growing in the Lord and holding the Lord's desire above every desire of their own.

"Brothers, I do not account of myself to have laid hold, but one thing I do: Forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before, I pursue toward the goal for the prize to which God in Christ Jesus has called me upward." (Philippians 3:13-14)