2025년 생명의 삶 수료 간증 – 이하민 형제

Hello, I am Ha Min or Joseph. I took the bible study course, and this is my testimony. The main reason I took the course was to try and help my friends who knew of Jesus but did not follow him. I noticed that some of my friends have stressful lives or struggle with trauma from the past and I wanted them to be healed through Jesus, but I didn’t know how to approach it. Before taking this course, I didn’t really know what to say to help when my friends needed God. I would tell them that Jesus loves them or share a bible verse, but I didn’t know what to say beyond that if they asked more questions about the Christian life, or what sin is. Because I had never taken a bible study course before, I never thought about deeper questions like what sin is or how God plans our lives. So I decided to take the course to see how I could help my friends and answer my own questions that I never thought about before, like what the elements of sin are

I will admit, when it was time for a class, sometimes I didn’t want to go to the class and would rather stay home, the same way that sometimes I don’t want to go to a class in school. But God is not a class, and I shouldn’t think of an opportunity to be closer to God and learn more about him to be a burden. I learned this during one of the classes since I even felt Jesus’ presence as if he was sitting beside me. That’s when I realized I was making an important step in my spiritual journey and tried my best to stay focuses throughout the course. This is also significant because it came when I wanted to stay home and do something else, but now that I was at the class, Jesus showed his presence and it made me realize something

I was becoming closer to God throughout the course. I was learning about the Bible’s history and Jesus’ life journey, from the places he visited in Israel. I was learning more about Christianity than I expected and getting answers to questions about Jesus or the Holy life that I hadn’t thought about before. For example, I learned what the elements of sin are, like acts not done in faith, and important for my testimony, knowing the good and not doing it. I knew I wanted to become closer to God, but I was thinking about what I wanted to do in the moment rather than what God wanted me to do. I was thinking about having free time for myself instead of giving my life up for God by going to class. So my sin was clouding my judgement and trying to stray me away from God when I was trying to become closer to him. When I realized this, I prayed to God to forgive my sins, and to help me stay focused on what God’s plan was. After this, before any class would start, I wouldn’t think of it as a burden, but rather think of it as God’s sign of love, that he wanted me to be closer to him so I could be happier and help others including my friends, which was the main reason I took the course to begin with.

So this made me learn an important lesson from this course, that in order for any of us to be closer to God, we need to break down those walls that we find scary or annoying, and jump at opportunities to learn more about God. It may be hard at first, but God is patient and is waiting for us to come to him. The disconnect between us and God occurs because God is always with us, but we are not always with God. God allows us to do amazing things, but we still have to act them out ourselves. If we want to be closer to God, we must come to him. It is exactly what is said in Jeremiah‬ ‭29‬:‭13‬, where God says‭ “If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.” The key word of course is “wholeheartedly”. We cannot approach him if we are clouded by sin like I was. We need to seek him out truthfully and honestly. This also made me realize that I wasn’t helping my friends the way I should have been when they needed spiritual help. Before taking the course, I was praying for my friends to be healed through Jesus or to overcome the odds and have some stress in their lives relieved. This is fine, and it’s not necessarily wrong to pray like this but it’s not the approach I should have been going for. Instead, I should have been praying for my friends to meet Jesus, to seek out for him. Not for Jesus to find them, but for them to find Jesus, because again, God is always with us. Jesus doesn’t need to find us, he has already found us and is with us. We are the ones who need to find and come to Jesus. We have to open the door that God made to find him. I am very thankful for learning that

Now that I have completed the course, I have learned that every act by God does has an explanation, even when we don’t know the answer now, God knows the answer and will reveal it in time. I have been able to understand that over time and thanks to this course. I learned the value of us being the ones to come to Jesus, and now I’m more confident to show others Jesus’ presence through me, and I’ve accepted the way God works. The way God works is not always how non-Christians think, which is why it is important for us to connect to God ourselves to find the answers. I have grown spiritually from this course and have come closer to God and I will continue to grow in the coming years as well. I am glad I took the course and was able to be closer to God. That was my experience with the Living Life Bible Study Course. Thank you to God for giving me this opportunity to grow and learn and thank you for listening to my testimony