I have always wanted to be part of the Youth For Christ. Since high
school, I’ve been wondering how to join it, and everytime
I meet someone part of it I’m always amazed. I always thought
that it would be the coolest thing I’ll ever do—be a
part of YFC.
Not long after, my questions had been answered. Camps were scheduled and my friends were going. In fact, some of my friends were already part of it. But sadly, there’s what we call inevitable shortcomings. Several times did the herald bang my door, and I’m always there to open it. But it’s just that I can’t get out of it—yet. ‘Till the time came that, I have to sail on different shore, opening another chapter of my God-given life. Pathetic to myself, I thought that maybe I wasn’t for it, and vice versa. But wait, there’s more. There’s really that something inside me – I don’t know what – that tells me to hang on. It was then that I promised myself: “Come what may, I’ll be a part of YFC”. Then I came to this whole new environment--beautiful, careless, independent, soaring liberty, all kinds of freedom. It’s a place where conservative people say that no religion exists; a place where atheists, agnostics and religious people meet and live together. To avoid drowning from its liberty, we have to swim to the right shore. I longed for my comfort zone, but He never made it long. Once again, He knocked at my door again. But I refused to let Him in because I’m unclean, ugly and unworthy, like I don’t belong there. I cried my prayers to be heard. It feels like running back home, fleeing from the shadows I feared. After that three-day camp, He made me brand new. No matter how unclean, no matter how unworthy, no matter how shameful the world deemed me to be, I know I’m still loved by Him. I really wondered what made them say that there’s no religion in that place when YFC is there. And I’ll always be on His battlefield, knowing that He doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
Coming back home, I always have inside me the radiance and growth
that I found in YFC. Ready to be one of the paragons for His youth.
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