My Testimony

I thought it would be cool to share my testimony with you. This is the story of what God has done and is doing in my life.

I was raised in a Christian home my whole life and had a good understanding of the Gospel from an early age. I knew that I was a sinner: I had disobeyed God and was deserving of death - eternal death and separation from God in hell, and I needed a Savior. Jesus Christ came down to earth as a man and suffered a horrible death on the cross for us all.

I remember thinking as early as age four, “I will go to heaven when I die. I will be a Christian one day, but not yet. I am going to wait until I am older.”

When I was around seven or eight, I said, “Okay, now’s the time.” I asked Jesus into my heart and prayed “The Prayer” multiple times, “just to be sure.”

I thought that I was saved.

But my life did not change. I was not sure if I was going to heaven. I hoped I was. I was still the same as I was before: selfish, unloving, unkind, rude, wanting only what I wanted and thinking too much of what others thought of me. I was also scared that someone might ask me about my salvation. I was afraid to talk about it, and the Bible.

Then, when I was ten, almost eleven, my life went through a series of big changes. I wanted to pray more. I wanted to start reading my Bible and seek God in my life. I knew I was going to heaven. I began to be excited about being God’s child, and I was happy to talk about it. All this happened rather slowly, over the course of the next two years, but it happened!

Through the years when I was eleven and twelve, I was still learning and struggling a lot. Those two years were tough, and I had many days of discouragement.

But I know that the hard times were worth it before the good ones came!

These last three years I have really seen God’s work in my life, and through others reaching out to me: being a good example and giving me insight and encouragement. And I have joy each day.

So looking back, I don’t believe I was actually saved at eight. My heart wasn’t in the right place, and when I wanted to seek God and act like a Christian, that made all the difference.

I had wanted to get baptized ever since my older siblings had been baptized when I was six, but for the next seven years I was too shy and afraid to ask my parents about it. When I was twelve I was thinking about it all the time, and asked my two younger siblings about getting baptized together. One breakfast when I was thirteen, I heard my parents saying, “Well, the two youngest kids have asked to be baptized…” I said, “Wait! I want to get baptized too!” My parents were suspicious that I said that only because of the other kids, but I knew it was the right time.

We got baptized on June 18th, 2017.

Now I am sixteen, and my life cannot be better! I cannot explain the joy and peace that God has given me. I want to serve Him with my whole heart, and I want to follow Him where He leads. Praise the Lord!!!

Psalm 118:6

The Lord is on my side;

I will not fear.

What can man do to me?

Job 5:8-9

But as for me I would seek God,

And to God I would commit my cause -

Who does great things, and unsearchable,

marvolous things without number.