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Timmy Lee Testimony

I’ve been attending CBC almost all my life, ever since moving to Houston when I was about 2, and, growing up, I pretty much just went through the motions—I went to church every Sunday, went to AWANA on Fridays, and I even did choir (which I hated but would help me in the future unexpectedly…).

 

 I was incredibly blessed to have grown up in the church and to have been raised by God-fearing parents. Believing that Christ died on the cross to wash away my sins, I accepted Jesus as my personal savior and got baptized at a really young age; I was only about 6 or 7. However, even though I had accepted Jesus as my savior, I did little to grow spiritually, especially throughout middle school and the beginning of high school. I didn’t truly follow Him. How I lived life did not reflect that of a true Christian. And so, I continued on attending church and, out of pride, settled with what little knowledge I actually had about being a true Christian, foolishly telling myself that I was good because I knew the basics, because I was saved.

 

 Though I know I was saved that Sunday when I asked Jesus to enter my life, I basically lived in a sinful state of complacency from then on until high school, a huge chunk of my life that, looking back, I know I will never be able to get back, and I will regret it for the rest of my life. I attended church every week. I did all the events, went to all the camps, but still I did not plug in as a true member of CBC. Still I did not truly follow Jesus. As the years went by, the temptations of life started to be thrown at me; I began to struggle with things such as pride, lust, laziness. But by the grace of God I began to realize just how much of a broken and messed up sinner I was, how much that I needed Him. Only then did I begin to understand the entirety of the gospel and the significance of the cross. Only then did I begin to experience Him working in me; I start to think that maybe I had been shutting Him out all those years before.

 

 As I look back, it really hasn’t been that long since I started to truly follow Jesus. It was around the middle of my sophomore year in high school when I started to plug in and serve at CBC. I started to volunteer at AWANA, I joined servant team, and I feel like I’ve found a place on youth praise team where I can faithfully use my God-given talents to serve and glorify Him. But now, I understand that as true Christians, we are to live lives of worship to Him, conducting ourselves in ways that would honor Him, glorifying Him in all that we do. We are to truly obey and follow and seek after Jesus. Our lives as Christians are to be different from that of a non-Christian. I continue to struggle with pride, idolatry, lust, laziness, impatience, things I seem to always have struggled with, but I try to press on and continue following Jesus day in and day out. More recently, I feel like God has been teaching me a bunch about patience, showing love to others, and surrendering everything to Him. Boy, the road is rough sometimes though. In the end, I know that life as a Christian is no walk in the park, that there will be trials, that there will be times when He decides to test us—but all because He loves us so much.