The most precious thing that ever happened in my life is coming to know Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. I was born
and brought up in a traditional Hindu family in India. I was not very religious, but committed to follow Hinduism and pray
to Hindu idols every day. Though I had everything in my life, there was always a void which was missing God. I grew up
with an idea that all roads lead to the same God as long as I lived a sinless life on my own efforts.

When I was studying in college, a friend of mine started talking about Jesus and shared the gospel with me for the first
time. She said that I was a sinner and Jesus died on the cross for my sins that separated me from God. Jesus is the only
way to God as He paid the price on the cross on my behalf and rose again as Lord and Savior. And all I have to do on my
part is to believe and accept this free gift of salvation by accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. She shared the
corresponding bible verses in 1 John 4:14, Luke 19:10, John 3:16, Romans 3:22-24, Ephesians 2:4-5, Romans 10:9, 2
Timothy 1:8-9, Acts 2:36. But I shut myself from hearing that message as I thought she was trying to convert me to
another religion. She gave me a bible which I threw aside. I even challenged her that I would rather go to hell than follow
Jesus and betray my Hindu identity that I am born into. After that she and her friends started praying for me and I grew
restless about God. One night, I was so disturbed, gripped with fear, woke up in the middle of my sleep and out of
nowhere, some bible verses started coming to my mind. As I couldn’t get rid of them, I searched for the bible that I had
thrown aside and when I opened it, I saw John 3:16-18:

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal
life. For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. He
who believes in him is not condemned; he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the
name of the only Son of God.”
The words were so powerful that I couldn’t resist the truth in it. Until then, I never realized that God loved, nor I realized
that God in the bible loved the whole world including me and not just for Christians. He had included me in His plan which
contradicted my thinking, upbringing and religion. If it was true, then my whole life was a lie! I cried out to God saying, “I
don’t know you. But if you are out there somewhere listening to me and if you really exist, then please reveal yourself to
me by tomorrow and whoever you are, I’ll follow you”. That was the first real prayer in my life where I sensed peace fill my
heart and I believed that if God heard me, He would answer me by that time! So the next day, I kept all the options
opened and was very anxious expecting a reply from Him. I was inwardly hoping that He would convince me that I was still
following Him through Hinduism. On that day of the week, I would have gone to the temple with my Hindu friends in the
late afternoon, but unexpectedly, the friend who had shared the gospel invited me to her church that morning. If she had
asked at any other time, I would have said “no”. But as I had already decided to permit all the things that happened on
that day by that time I have given to God to know the truth, I said “yes” to her. She took me to the church where the
worship service began and I was about to have a life changing experience! As I was listening to one song that
demonstrated the love of God, again relating to John 3:16, something started happening in me (that I remember so fresh
even today!)…that never happened in my life before and cannot be denied. In later years, when I read Ezekiel 11:19 (And
I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will
give them an heart of flesh), I realized what happened to me on that day. God actually gave me a new heart.
On that day, I was brought to a place where I felt everything in my life fading away…all my questions, doubts, fear, religion,
life, family, future, goals and it was a place where I could see myself, my sins, God and Jesus Christ in front of me “hanging
on the cross” and how they all tied together. Nothing else really mattered except the truth about Jesus which captured my
heart! It opened my eyes to see that He had nothing to do with any religion or my own efforts of being a “good person” to
lead a sinless life, but had everything to do with my relationship with God! I amazingly felt drawn to this sweet Jesus,
realized how much He loved me (Though His love can never be comprehended, please read Isaiah 53 to have the least bit
of idea of what He might have gone through on behalf of us) that He could willingly take my place on the cross for my sins,
which had been separating me from God. And I believed Him to be the only way, the truth and the life. As John 14:6 says
(Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”), I knew beyond
doubt that no one could come to God except through Jesus Christ. He did His part out of His love and grace for me and it
was my turn to accept or reject the truth! My eyes were wide open to choose between life and death at that moment
(Accepting and rejecting Jesus Christ is a matter of life and death). I willingly accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior! Who
wouldn’t! He was and is and will be my answer. I repented of my sins and believed that He washed away my sins and I was
filled with joy, peace and new life. I finally found my “true” identity and roots in Jesus Christ. I made a covenant with God on
that day to follow Him rest of my life and to this day, He has been faithful to lead me. Not only that, in the midst of
persecution, God preserved my new found faith in Jesus Christ and in the following years, He touched my family members
one by one in coming to know Him. Praise the Lord! I’m nothing without my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet
upon a rock, and established my goings.
(Psalm 40:2)

I thank Jesus for everything and pray that each person reading this testimony be
touched by this amazing love of God who is always waiting at your door-steps for
you to taste and know that He is good!

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the
door,
I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
(Revelation 3:20)

This precious life in Jesus Christ is something worth living for and in the midst of
tribulations, it is still worth looking forward to an everlasting life in Him in heaven!

Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
(Revelation 2:10b)
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
(Philipians 3:14)
committed her life to Jesus while she was doing her graduation in India. She
continues to be a great influence among the non- christians.