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God’s voice and understand His will. I thank God because He
gave me divine friends and advisors to help me do His work.
After meeting Christ, I decided to step out of darkness and seek
God more, because the ‘noise’ in my heart had been deafening. I
slowly understood that I should not fight for myself. I found a
way to cope with the hardships and understood what other
genocide victims were experiencing in their hearts. Many
families were destroyed, blood relations torn apart and spouses
separated. Had I not sought God, I would have suffered the same
kind of aftermath effect or even worse. As burdensome as the
situation was, God intervened. This experience opened my eyes
to God’s nature as the only true and faithful friend. I
remembered what the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 10:13, “No
temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And
God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you
can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way
out so that you can bear it.” This scripture was so comforting to
me when I needed it most. The knowledge that God was fully
aware of what I was going through, and even trusted that I
would get through it triumphantly gave me the much-needed
strength and courage to take the next step.
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