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In order to share with an amazing experience that happened in the past (a turning point in my life), while we are at it, I cannot fail to emphasize the beauty of the Sakhalin Island, though I have spoken more than once in an another section of my book.
Although many missionaries have been fascinated by the beauty of Sakhalin nature, to me was nothing special. For I have seen this nature all my life, so there was nothing but ordinary: fauna, flora and so on.
It turns out that I have been blind all my life to nature, it’s because I was blind to God.
I remember how they had spent for hours enjoying the nature of the island especially on the seashore by cooking natural seafood. I don’t remember a single missionary who didn’t admire it .However, for me, the Sakhalin nature was so familiar that I did not find anything to be attractive. It was not amazing, no beautiful, as it seemed to the missionaries. I’ve seen it all since childhood – slender birches, poplars so on. Although there many beautiful flowers can be seen in the forest in summer, I do not pay attention to all these creations until the blindness to God was removed. We humans are not physically blind, but are spiritually. We are born blind to nature and to God, no one can deny it.
After my life had radically been changed, along with it my attitudes toward nature and life. If you cannot see what God wants you to then you must have been blind to God and his creation. Blindness prevents you from getting closer to God. We can see not everything what was created by God, just a part of it. I feel sorry for those who are considered alive, but can not see what they should. I used to think the same way as you do, but now I can see what was impossible to see before. Now I do not just live, but enjoy life, I rejoice every day. Now I want to testify how God revealed himself to me in the light of nature. In other words, what he revealed himself to me through two revelations – general and special.
What are general and special revelations?
Well, with regard to the former, every person is born with. It is a manifestation of God through the nature. The latter is given God when we are born again. Doctrinally it was believed that is a bible and its full manifestation of the invisible image of God which is Jesus Christ in human flash.
Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. Jesus said in the gospel of John..
That’s why we call it a special revelation. We tend to long for nature and its beauty, is it really so. Of course not it’s not because of nature but because of something bigger than that which is hidden behind the nature that is God. Our Souls cannot be deceived but what can easily be deceived is our intellect which is the mind. In fact, They have already been deceived by the blindness of the power of darkness. 2 Corinthians 4: 3-4. It says the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of Jesus.
I have been in such a state all my live until the blindness had been removed.
This is a testimony I believe it will fascinate you as you read it through.
What happened was it was somewhere in the middle of spring, the sky was clear and I could feel the freshness of the morning dew being seen on the leaves of the trees glistening with small drops of. Although the road was broken with bumps and cracks, in this brokenness I have seen something to be admired.
With the onset of spring, the bumps slowly begin to smooth out, leaving behind cracks. It repeats like this all year round.
Although I was accompanied on the road by all God’s living creatures, I did not notice this until that hour when God revealed himself to me. Who could have though that after that day everything would change into a new perspective – my view of nature, and my worldview forever?
That day, as usual, I went and picked up a missionary to take her on business. On the way there because we got busy chatting as we ended on a road that leads to the capital of the Sakhalin Island. I still remember everything in detail. To be honest, usually when I’m driving I don’t look around for the sake of safety but that day I had difficulty where to look because of the beautiful panoramic view. As we moved forward to our destination, all of a sudden I was a bit blinded by the bright light of the nature being full of colorful sprink flowers of its kinds as if a dark room were lit up by candles. And the high way was all broken, because this road was very familiar to me. I have traveled on that road more than a million of times since childhood. Suddenly before my eyes, the road with cracks and bumps that had not yet recovered from harsh winter. It feels as though I was riding on a carpet that was being lowered by God from heaven. And on both sides of the road, brightly freshly bloomed flowers of various types gave such beauty, as if I was flying over a real carpet of unearthly origin. I saw all the beauty in all its goodness of the surrounding nature, as if I saw it from a bird’s eye view. Honestly, I can’t find such words to describe what I saw – the color of leaves, trees, flowers, etc. It seemed to me that I really was driving on the most beautiful carpet that nature can create. I also felt as if God gently lowered this carpet for me from heaven, opening the curtain of his world, beckoning me into his world, showing how beautiful it is. From the joy of what I saw, tears began to welled in my eyes. Thus the divine encounter began the transformation of my life. The greatness of beauty was only given me to have tasted only once. However even now I can see it, not in the same way as I did on that day.