THE POWER OF GOD’S LOVE IN MY LIFE “What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish that I may gain Christ”. Philippians 3:8 I am Mrs. Charito Garingo-Balaodan, married to Jessie Balaodan and blessed with one child, Charann. I was raised in a family with conflicting beliefs of who God really is. The knowledge about Jesus was not clear to me especially when I went to college to study. During that time, I learned that God did not really exist… and for 14 years of teaching Evolution and Biology, this belief remained in me--- that God was only a delusion. I came to know our Lord Jesus through my husband with His grace. Before accepting Him as my Savior, I lived a life where I placed high importance on who I was, took great pride of the excellent education and achievements in my career. My reputation in the community was everything to me. This was because I did not have God in my life. I believed that I will have everything in life if I worked hard for it. But I was proven wrong at a certain time when nobody was there to help me. Even my years of teaching and the knowledge of the scientific facts can not do anything to remedy my struggles… All I remember was that I was crying on my knees to God, saying, “Father I am sorry, give me a chance’… From the moment of my conversation, my life in Jesus Christ became incomparable from what I had before. My life is just beginning with my husband and my daughter with God being on top of our priority. Since then, there has been neither circumstance nor time in our lives that God’s greatest love was not there for us. And to you my brethren, this is my vow to our Father in Heaven: that I will live my life to be the most faithful illustration of His magnificent will. I am sharing this testimony of mine not to try to convince you, but to share the amazing goodness and unfailing love of Jesus to us all… To God be the Glory and thanksgiving… God bless!