I was brought up a Buddhist, but I had been very miserable in my heart for a long time. Now Buddhist ethics are very good, but I am not good. Buddha tells me not to do bad things, but my heart wanted to do them, and then, as a bad man, Buddha has nothing for me.
Often I would look up into the heavens and think that He, God, who made these stars and kept them in the beautiful order that anyone could see they were kept in, was able, if He so willed, to keep my heart in order.
That was how I discovered the true God, because He brought good to a bad man. He gave His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for a bad man, and He gave me eternal life, so that my heart is now kept in order and made happy because of God’s love for me.
God’s testimony in creation spoke to me—the heaven declaring His glory, and the firmament showing His handiwork, but now the testimony is of His love: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)).