My involvement with Christians on Campus is not as a student. I am one who has observed all the activities of many of the members of Christians on Campus. My son who is a graduate of the University of Texas was a member of Christians on Campus. Everything that I see about them agrees with my Christian background.
I did not grow up in a Christian home, but sometimes around the age of 9 years, I was taken to a revival meeting where I met the Lord Jesus and accepted Him as my Savior. My receiving the Lord at this time was such a shock to my parents that they would not allow me to be baptized immediately.
After this initial meeting of the Lord, I wandered away from Him. It was not until I was a senior in high school that I saw that He was the Lord. At that time I received Him as my Lord. From then until now (more than forty years later) I have been actively following the Lord. There is nothing that is more refreshing than to spend some time with other Christians singing, reading the word, or praying.
I am very grateful to know that God has a good pleasure. His good pleasure is to impart Himself into man as life. “I am come that they may have life and may have it abundantly.” John 10:10b. God made man in his own image so that man may have dominion over all things. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over ever creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” Gen. 1:26. Man needs God as life in order to exercise the proper dominion over all things.
The key to experiencing God as life is the human spirit. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” John 3:6. Man has a human spirit which is regenerated when Christ is received as Savior. It is through this regenerated human spirit that man can contact God as the Spirit. This is because the Holy Spirit is living in our spirit. “But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.” Rom. 8:9a. I enjoy exercising my spirit through prayer. “By means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit and watching unto this in all perseverance and petition concerning all the saints.” Eph. 6:18. What pleasure there is in exulting in God. “And my spirit has exulted in God my Savior;” Luke 1:47.
Christ in me is my hope of glory. “To whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,” Col. 1:27. I await the coming of the Lord in peace. “And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Thes. 5:23.
W. A.
— Austin, Texas
