Chaitanya (alias Joy Stephen) is an ordinary Indian boy who loves life and its creator. He works full time as an Automation analyst at Cognizant and enjoys participating in weekly church ministry. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics. In addition to being an occasional writer, he’s a bible lover, fitness junkie, and theology nerd.
Let him tell in his own voice:
Hello! This site is my personal non-secular writing shelf, a mirror to my young heart.
Let me open with my testimony on how Christ turned me from Chaitanya to Joy. Not by name, but by personality.
Knowing Him By Name to Trusting Him By Faith:
It's bitter to describe destructive me before encountering the love of Jesus. Like clouds hid in the dark, I hid a terrible pain behind the smiles I delivered all along my college days, but none stopped Jesus from saving me.
March 26, 2018.
University, Chennai.
Inside that third floor, dark room, I became a scapegoat, Disheartened.
Friends called me a traitor, of course, I am. My own decisions slapped me open on road. Mouths are in wild action, none donated me a spoon of forgiveness.
With tear cocoons, my eyes can see the world only in concave. Surrounded by angry shadows, piercing my heart, leaving me nothing to do but to sob in silence and, seek one last chance.
Broken mentally, and paying the penalty by bowing down to punishment, intended to pay even more. Helpless.
Then in the edge, came someone into my life to make butterflies out of the rusty cocoons, through an unplanned call to a stranger pastor, suggested by mom.
"You need not have to pay", said Pastor.
Why?
"cos' he paid it for you on the cross",
is the word that caught me and made me what I am today. Knowing him by name to trusting him by faith is what I achieved in these three years.
True, loving, forgiving, and living lord spared a moment to show his concern for my life. How beautiful it is!
The way he unfolded the riddles, turning all the nightmare into beautiful scenery, with family around is unexplainable. Hope, courage, love, aim.
Once I am hopeless and unworthy. Now I have it as a child of God. Christ alone saved me from the phase which I can't relive again and, he is capable to save you too if you give him a chance.
Isaiah 42: 5
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
And from then, I've decided to follow him. Jesus is the only way, truth, and life.
Joy alias Chaitanya.