Trusting in God

I Put God First in My Life

By Elder Bokwoo Kim
President of Elders's Association
Yoido Full Gospel Church

I was anxious as I was driving along Kyoungbu Highway on the Saturday before Easter in 1984. I would be able to attend Easter worship service the next day if I went to Seoul that evening after making deliveries. I urged the truck driver to go faster and then I fell asleep for a short time. I awoke when I heard a sudden bang and then my body was turned around. Time passed. After a while, I was upside down in an overturned truck. The truck had crashed and broken pieces of glass were all over my body. I was screaming, "Oh God, please help me," and tried my best to open the door to escape from the wreck. However, I couldn't open the badly smashed door. Then someone approached the car and opened the door. The truck driver escaped from the car completely unharmed and helped me out. God saved me.

I have been blessed both spiritually and physically ever since I began attending church faithfully. In 1981, God chose me as an elder and allowed me to serve as a Sunday school teacher until I took over as president of the Elders' Association of Yoido Full Gospel Church. I got married quite late in life and promised God that I would raise my son as a servant of God and named him in advance. He is attending Hansei University and serving as an assistant pastor at the International Theological Institute in Yoido Full Gospel Church. God has allowed us to be healthy so that my wife and children (one boy, two girls) never have had to go to the hospital.

God has fulfilled our lives in material ways so we can concentrate on serving the Lord. Most of all, I thank God that He has given me the duty at church to serve Dr. Cho well. What I would confidently confess is that I've had to live a diligent life for the glory of God and put God first in my life. I've become healthier and my business is better off than before. I intend to serve as a Sunday school teacher for the rest of my life after retiring as president of the Elders's Association.

Hallelujah, praise the Lord.