CA : Christ Associate

In the month of February this year, in the gospel preaching I met a professional CA, Chartered Accountant, and preached the gospel to him. Since then our association is of Christ, though we met now and then for official purposes. The meeting was blogged in http://palmeichung.blogspot.in/2014/02/ca.html. Since then, he has been on my prayer list for God's full salvation experience, particularly for baptism.

Today, as I discoursed with him on official matters and other related matters on taxation, investments etc., I also touched the matter of "success."  And emphasized on its true meaning; success is satisfaction in God, with God, for God, in Christ Jesus. He then became very interested. Therefore, discerning the need, I gave testimonies of being inwardly satisfied despite the outward environment, and that genuine success happens only when God blesses. 

God's blessings are beyond human imagination and very often comes in disguise. And one of the practical blessings is the growth in the divine life unto maturity. Yet for this growth, there must be a fundamental or foundational starting point. For spiritual growth in Christ, the most crucial starting point is believing into Jesus Christ and baptizing into the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit or into the Lord Jesus Christ. The former, he had passed, but the later, he had some doubts and did not feel the need for it. 

At that juncture, I explained about the spiritual significances of baptism and why it must be done, especially on the matter of fulfilling God's righteous requirement, termination of the old man and germination of the new man, a declaration and testimony of being the son of God, born of God and the organic union between God and man with few other examples in real life. Then he began to clarify various matters related to the pre and post baptismal lifestyle and the do's and don'ts. To which my simple reply was "the Lord as the Spirit will lead and guide into all the truths." He was so convinced, and the Spirit was speaking and moving behind the scene. Then he asked of how baptism happens and when it should be done, I said, any time when he is ready that is the right and best time, and must be as soon as possible to avoid the bait of satanic procrastination. After all this fellowship, he himself declared that he wanted to be baptized right away. It was almost unbelievable. I did not expect this nor was I prepared for it. But I was very confirmed within and without that this is the Lord's doing, and followed suit.

He then was baptised! Hallelujah! He is now my real CA, Christ Associate; from being my Chartered Accountant to Christ Associate. 

Some encouraging testimonies he testified were, since the time we met first, he stopped going to temple, then as we met again, many changes have transpired within him, then he started praying to Jesus. Even business-wise, his business grew and became "successful" from the time we met, and also testified how blessed he was since then. 

Even right after his baptism we had fellowshipped and he testified that he felt very happy and joyful. Now, he belongs to the big family of God! I encouraged him to contact the Lord all the time by calling upon the Name of Jesus, to pray as much as possible, to read and eat the Word of God, the Bible, daily, in fact, gifted one Bible to him with a portion on the Gospel of John to start reading, and the need for fellowship as brothers and in the church. 

May the Lord gain him fully to be a pillar and pillar builder for the church in Gurgaon. Now a Christ Associate, and then also a Church Associate indeed. What a CA!