my testimony...so I worte this for my mission trip to peru in 16 days....I need opinions on it
Written by pngcrazychic
Posted on Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 06:45 PM.
For as long as I can remember my life has been centered on God and the church,
(But growing up as a missionary kid has a lot to do with that.)
I can remember going to Sunday school when I was 4 and learning about this person called Jesus and singing the song âJesus Loves meâ but I never really understood what
I was singing or learning about. Another thing I can remember is that when I was little I was deathly afraid of thunderstorms and I would wake-up in the middle of the night crying, one night after I woke up deathly afraid my mom told me that I could pray to God and ask him to help me not be afraid. She said that if I called out to God he would hear me no matter what. A few days latter in Sunday school I learned that I could have a personal relationship with Jesus, even though this didnât make any sense to me It sounded really cool so latter that day I asked my mom what I had learned and she went on to tell me how she became a Christian. Since I wanted to be just like my mom I did exactly what she didâ¦. I went into my clothes closet and asked Jesus into my heart. So a few days before I turned 5 I accepted Jesus into my heart and for many years after that I knew that He was in my heart but I didnât really have a personally relationship with him until I was 12. It began at a Sunday night worship service that the graduating seniors of our church held. For the first time in my life I felt like I was worshipping for a purpose and I felt like I was singing from my heart. Latter that night one of the guys shared something that really stuck with meâ¦I donât remember everything but the little part that I did changed my life forever! I donât know why I remembered this guys name but David Lohmeyer talked about how following Christ wasnât just a thing we did one day at week at church but that flowing Christ was a daily thing and that sometimes it may be hard it was rewarding in the end! At the end of the service there was a time when people could ask questions but I didnât have the gut to go up there so I didnât but I know a seed was planted at the service. A few months latter I went on a retreat with my youth group and the whole weekend it I felt like God was telling me he wanted a personal relationship with me. On the last night of the retreat my youth director had us stand in a circle under all the stars in the middle of now where and sing, âBetter is one dayâ. I donât really remember everything about that night but one line of the song stuck with meâ¦Better is one day in Your courts Than thousands elsewhere. In that moment I knew that life with out God just would work and that I wanted Him to be my life not just parts of my life. So on June 22, 2006 I gave my whole life to Jesus. When I look back on that night I think about everything I have gone through. The journey to where I am now has been long and hard and I have wondered what the purpose of all the pain I have gone through is for but I am learning that God gives us hard times to show us thingsâ¦. 6 months latter is when my faith really grew. Like I said I grew up as a Missionary kid. Anyway One day I came home from school and my parents said they had something they needed to tell me. They sat me down and said that in 2 months we were leaving Papua New Guinea so my sister could get help. I was not happy at all, I didnât want to leave everything I had known for so long and move to the unknownâ¦. my life was in Papua New Guinea not in America. So I reluctantly packed up and left my home in PNG and steeped into the unknownâ¦this past year has been the hardest year of my life, so far for many reason but somehow I know that this is all part of Godâs plan and I just have to have faith that this is for the good. So this year has been really hard but I have grew so so much, so all the pain has been worth it. So many times I have wanted to give up and not believe anymore but then God does something amazing, he picks me back up and I feel confident again. Not once Did God say He would make our lives easy, he never promised days with out pain or years with rain but He did promise He would never leave us. Now that I think about it I may miss my friends and my life I am learning to love my life in statesâ¦. even though I donât have my best friend with meâ¦. I can say that God is the only friend I really need and that he is the only friend that will never let me down. What more could I want?
So my point in all of this is that Jesus loves you. Like the song says, âThey are weak but He is strong.â He is strong enough to pick you up from even the deepest pit; He loves no matter where you are or what youâve doneâ¦. Being a Christian is all about faith, if you have faith as small as a mustard seedâ¦. you can move mountains!!!
