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So this evening I got to do something amazing-share my faith with someone I barely know!!

I'm sorry this post won't be particulary imaginative or even exciting for some of you!Anyway,this evening out of the blue a student I give grinds to couldn't get his head around God's salvation.I tried to explain it is complicated terms,enough that he could get an essay from it but to no avail.He looked at me puzzled.He couldn't understand it.Eventually I decided to go back to what I thought was basic.I turned over my folder and drew two cliffs with no bridge between them.On one Cliff stood the student and on the other God.I then drew the shape of the cross between the two and it fit perfectly and I explained how Jesus dying on the cross took away our sin and gave us access to God.I shrugged it off by saying that he had probably seen the illustration a million time but when I looked up at him his face beamed with happiness.He was astonished.He had never seen it and suddenly everything clicked.He ran to get his younger sister who is a Christian and wanted to show it to her.He was so enthusiastic!!

I couldn't help but smile.What I had considered so small and taken for granted had made something click in his mind.We pushed it aside and continued on with the class.We talked about other religions and answered the essay questions.As it reached the end of the class he began to ask more,about God and the church and salvation and sin.I was so taken a back.I answered in the best ways that I could and I tried to back it up where possible.We talked for half an hour simply about the church!!I felt bad leaving,as I was walking out the door he was still asking me questions.He questioned God's opinions on gays and lesbians and so many other controversial topics.It was like there had been a person hiding inside him the whole time waiting to emerge,one that stayed quite and nodded.

It is amazing to see God working so much.I am constantly on the look out for ways to share my faith and I go to the extremes of writing whole college essays about the Bible in an attempt to evangelise my lecturers sometimes.Of course,this is complete maddness and irrelevant to my course.I've been brought close to failing on a number of occassions.

God really does give us opportunities when we least expect them!!

I am just so excited about what happened!!I have such a warm, fuzzy feeling inside me.I was exhausted before I started the class and now I'm wide awake,alive...God really is great!!