The real me
is a child of God.
Born…. And protected
by God my entire life.
As a child
my parents took me to church, chapel, vacation bible school, and they were
involved in the church wherever we moved, serving and leading small groups and
youth. I had an excellent example! My
dad had wanted to be a pastor, but God had a better plan for him.
One night as
we left church late it was dark in the parking lot we ran to get to our car, my
dad was away at work and it was just us girls, running in the dark. “Whoooo” my mom said, as she rushed us to the
auto, “we have to hurry we don’t want the boogie man to get us!” “Oh my” I replied, “God will not let anything
bad happen to us.” My faith and the fact
that a 5 year old would say it shocked my mom into calm.
I grew and
adjusted…. God continued to whisper into my ear… I listened. As a young child I
was somewhat concerned that I would not confess my sin enough…so I prayed a
lot.
At 14 I went
to a Bible Camp in the mountains of Japan, there was an evangelistic speaker,
Dr. Cook, who took us through the steps to salvation. I had heard those before but for the first
time I realized I didn’t have to continually ask to be forgiven. I stood up and told my testimony to my group
that I always knew God was for me and that I was saved but this was the way to
find peace.
~~~ after 16
I had a heart break, a young girl with a broken heart is mad at everything, I
turned away from God, and decided to do everything my way… It was a sad and
confusing youth, the details that are not necessary to share…
One night at
19 years old, I was alone in my apartment, sad, worried, lonely, and
self-evaluating….
I prayed for
God to help me and told him I could not continue on my own because all my ideas
had ended in more sadness and loneliness…
within a half hour, a couple of people knocked on my door and handed out
a flyer for a new church that just opened up nearby… I knew this was the
answer. I attended and got baptized.
I continued
to follow God and thought there were times of desert and times of full
spiritual engagement… there was always God.
I have to
say that in Christ is the way to peace… in Christ is the way to wisdom…. In
Christ is the way to grow spiritual strength.
I think that there are times and seasons, for everything
in your life… and there are spiritual gifts that sometimes show up when God
needs you for them and then are not in your life for a while, or ever. I have had many seasons and there are times I
have had wisdom and times I do not… times I had discernment and times I
don’t. It goes on… and I know I am his.
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