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In this episode of Faith On Campus we hear from Gad Rasmussen, a student studying Primary Education at Edith Cowan University in Perth, WA. Gad is president of the Christian group at his campus, called the Gospel Stand.
At the start of 2020, Gad was on a mission trip in a remote community when he got injured through a horrible accident. He describes lying on the ground in pain & shock without knowing what had happened, when he suddenly heard some of the girls around him saying, “He’s lost his eye! He’s lost his eye!” That’s when he realised it was bad.
Gad was flown back to Perth by the Royal Flying Doctors for surgery, but unfortunately the damage was permanent, and he now only has sight out of one eye. For any young person with their life ahead of them, this would be a big blow. A lot of people have asked him, “How could God let something like this happen to you? How could he be good and loving if he would let this happen?”
But for Gad, he’s seen God at work in a lot of awesome ways through this challenging time, and it has really strengthened his faith in Jesus. As he sums it up at one point:
“I see God better with one eye than I ever did with two. After this accident I saw more clearly than ever before that this life is short, that the things of this world will pass away. I can’t guarantee my physical health, but the one thing that won’t pass away is Jesus, and my hope in him.”
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