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By Robert Rutaagi
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For fifty three years, I wavered between belief and unbelief. “Does God, really, exist? Does God have a son called Jesus? Does salvation make scientific sense?” I asked myself many times.
“Isn’t this a mere religious propaganda by the clergy to justify their employment and social status?”
The more I listened to the propaganda and read the Bible, the deeper my unbelief and doubt became.
I went through the school system fairly easily up to University and post graduate levels.
After graduation, I entered the employment world with zeal and gusto and rose through the ranks to CEO level. Though I succeeded academically and professionally, I was never happy. I had this deep void in me that would never leave me no matter what I achieved. My life was characterized and dominated by fear, doubt, anxiety, restlessness, blind ambitions and competitive spirit and social indulgence.
The more I hankered for social ideals that promised me happiness and freedom, the greater the void in me became.
The advent of pandemic HIV/AIDS, in late 1980s, aggravated my precarious situation. Death became rampant. The devil assured me that I was a target since he witnessed me sinning many times.
Fearing that I may die unsaved and risk going to hell, I considered believing in the unscientific God and his Bible.
I read the Bible twice from Genesis to Revelation searching for God and salvation. All I found were Jewish legends similar to those in my own culture. I attempted a third time and gave up in Psalms.
I prayed that God or Jesus or Angel Gabriel would appear before and give me the much preached-about salvation. Nothing happened for years. I prayed for Pauline type of conversion on his way to Damascus. That, too, did not happen.
One day, while in my office, on Tuesday 6.7.1999 at 18:43hrs, something extraordinary happened. Suddenly, the office was filled with intense light from ceiling to floor and from wall to wall. I thought of running out raising an alarm but feared meeting more fire beyond the door. Suddenly, some electric-like sweet current gushed through my body from cranium to toes. I thought now the fire had left the building to me! Before I could raise the delayed alarm a clear voice spoke to me.
“Why do you doubt me, and my salvation? I am your God. I give you my salvation.”
That day and hour, I accepted God’s gracious gift. That was my turning point. Suddenly, the very moment I accepted, the 53 year burden of sins supernaturally vanished and joy and transcendent peace descended upon me no matter what challenges I face. Praise be to God.
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Nice writing.