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Not I but Christ, Mi-kyeong Lim

I have been a Christian for about nine years, but during the first six years I was quite a dormant believer, without even the assurance of my salvation. By the Lord's mercy I got to meet some brothers and sisters in the Lord who really loved Him with their whole hearts and were genuine and full of joy. They were meeting with the local church in Austin, Texas. After meeting with them in the church in Austin for around one year, I began to have a desire to come to the FTTA (Full-Time Training in Anaheim) to know the Lord and the Bible more. Now I'm in my fourthterm, the last term, in the Training. I've received much more than I expected from the Training. I just wanted knowledge concerning the Lord and the Bible, but what I've received here is the Lord Himself.

How many times I strove to become a good person! The more I strove, the more I realized `what a wretched man I am' (Romans 7:24). Although in many classes I was taught that the Christian life is not merely one of ethics and morality, but a life of living out Christ (Philippians 1:21), I found myself still striving to be a good man with some help from God. “Thank you, Lord, for all my failures!” They only made me acknowledge that I am a hopeless person. Hallelujah! That's why God became a man, lived a human life, was crucified, resurrected, and became a life-giving spirit (John 1:1, 1:14; 1 Corinthians 15:45). As the life-giving spirit, Christ could come into me to live out His life through me. When I realized this, I felt peaceful and relieved to be able to stop striving to patch up my hopeless old man. Now I'm learning to put on the new man (Ephesians 4:24). The new man is not I but Christ, the hope of glory (Galatians 5:20; Colossians 1:27). The FTTA opened the way for me to transfer from the old man to the new man in my practical experience. I can testify that the two years in the Training have been the most meaningful time in my life.

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