I am a patient suffering from ankylosing spondylitis. To go outside, I have to use an electric wheelchair. Next, I’d like to share with you the changes that happened to my body and mind and the different states that I was in, before and after knowing God.
Before coming to the Lord Jesus, I had no direction and no destination. Bitterness ached all over my body and I lived in a self-enclosed world. Even though I was able to walk at the time, I actually had already lost my freedom.
Back then I started being badly affected by the disease and it began affecting my mood. Plus, given the suffering and pain caused by the illness, I lost my temper with the people around me. Even sometimes when my mother brought food to me, I knocked it over onto the floor.
Today I really desire to taste the meal that my mother always made but I didn’t like it at all at that time. However, death separates us, and I can’t bring her back to life.
After being ravaged and polished by life, and devastated by the disease, I entered a state of not being afraid of death, not caring about anything, even life. I left myself to live or die like wild grass.
After knowing God, through drawing intimacy with God, I have learned to be humble and grateful. Also, my life has been changed and upgraded. I am not controlled by emotions. I return to my true self - the self in Christ, the one who is not held hostage by evil spirits or emotions.
Able-bodied people are not necessarily healthy. Likewise, handicapped people are not necessarily unhealthy! In fact, we are all patients who need healing by Jesus Christ, the doctor from heaven!
Christians, we can see things from another perspective. You can find the good in the bad as long as you are willing to look for it. We can always learn or gain some experience or knowledge from anything or anyone.
Instead of complaining about what is missing in our life, we should think more about what life has given us. Life does not owe us anything. What we have now is enough for us to be grateful.
Life is an arduous journey. It is a lesson that makes us more complete and divine by experiencing hardships and being polished through the suffering of the world. It is a factory that moulds our lives and shapes our souls.
Suffering from ankylosing spondylitis, I live lying in bed all year round. By God’s special gift of grace given to me, I live every day in God’s grace and joy. Sometimes I even forget that I am a patient.
- Translated by Shuya Wang
我是一个强直性脊柱炎患者，出门依靠电动轮椅，我给大家分享一下我从不认识神以前到认识神以后身心的变化和状态。
以前的我；不认识主耶稣，没有方向，没有归宿，苦毒缠身，活在自我封闭的世界。虽然我当时还能行走，其实我已经是一个失去自由的人。
当年，我刚躺下的时候，心情低落，加上病痛的折磨，对身边的人乱发脾气，甚至妈妈将饭端到我的面前，我一手就给打翻在地。
当我今天在再想吃一口当年妈妈做的、我最不喜欢吃的饭时，妈妈已经与我阴阳两隔，无法唤醒。
在被生活蹂躏、打磨，被疾病折磨摧残，我进入了一段不惧死亡，不在乎一切，不留恋人生的状态，任自己如野草一般自生自灭。
现在的我；通过认识神我学会了谦卑、感恩，通过认识神，生命得到了改变提升，不被情绪控制，可以做回自己。一个富有基督生命的自己，不被邪灵、情绪所挟持的自己。
健康的人不见得就健康，残缺的也不见得就是不健康！其实我们都是病人，都需要医治，都需要耶稣基督这位来自天国的医生！
弟兄姊妹们啊，我们可以换一种角度去思想。在不好的事上找出它的好来，只要你愿意去找就能找到，因为任何事或任何人，都能让我们学到或是获得一些经验或知识。
多思想生活给予了我们什么，而不是抱怨我们的生活缺失了什么，生活本来就不欠我们什么，我们现在所拥有的已经足以值得我们感恩。
人生就是一段艰辛的历程，是一段通过人间疾苦来历练、打磨、 雕琢、 修剪使我们变得更加完全、圣洁的人生课堂，是成就我们人生，造就我们灵魂的工厂。
简介：我是一个强直性脊柱炎患者，常年生活在病床，蒙了神特别的恩典，我每天活在神的恩典与喜乐之中，甚至有时我都忘了自己是一个病人。
一位强直性脊柱炎患者的见证：认识耶稣前后我身心状态的巨大变化
I am a patient suffering from ankylosing spondylitis. To go outside, I have to use an electric wheelchair. Next, I’d like to share with you the changes that happened to my body and mind and the different states that I was in, before and after knowing God.
Before coming to the Lord Jesus, I had no direction and no destination. Bitterness ached all over my body and I lived in a self-enclosed world. Even though I was able to walk at the time, I actually had already lost my freedom.
Back then I started being badly affected by the disease and it began affecting my mood. Plus, given the suffering and pain caused by the illness, I lost my temper with the people around me. Even sometimes when my mother brought food to me, I knocked it over onto the floor.
Today I really desire to taste the meal that my mother always made but I didn’t like it at all at that time. However, death separates us, and I can’t bring her back to life.
After being ravaged and polished by life, and devastated by the disease, I entered a state of not being afraid of death, not caring about anything, even life. I left myself to live or die like wild grass.
After knowing God, through drawing intimacy with God, I have learned to be humble and grateful. Also, my life has been changed and upgraded. I am not controlled by emotions. I return to my true self - the self in Christ, the one who is not held hostage by evil spirits or emotions.
Able-bodied people are not necessarily healthy. Likewise, handicapped people are not necessarily unhealthy! In fact, we are all patients who need healing by Jesus Christ, the doctor from heaven!
Christians, we can see things from another perspective. You can find the good in the bad as long as you are willing to look for it. We can always learn or gain some experience or knowledge from anything or anyone.
Instead of complaining about what is missing in our life, we should think more about what life has given us. Life does not owe us anything. What we have now is enough for us to be grateful.
Life is an arduous journey. It is a lesson that makes us more complete and divine by experiencing hardships and being polished through the suffering of the world. It is a factory that moulds our lives and shapes our souls.
Suffering from ankylosing spondylitis, I live lying in bed all year round. By God’s special gift of grace given to me, I live every day in God’s grace and joy. Sometimes I even forget that I am a patient.
- Translated by Shuya Wang
Testimony of Man Suffering From Ankylosing Spondylitis: 'My Mind is Totally Different After Knowing God'
