Testimony
- Michele Brown
I thank God that I have a testimony
to give to His saving and keeping power. I was brought up
in a Christian home, both of my parents are saved and I
was sent along to the Sunday School, Children's Meetings
and Sunday services in the church. It was there that I learned
that there was a Heaven and a Hell and it was there that
I was told of my need of salvation. I Thank God for the
faithful preaching of the Gospel in the church and the stand
that it takes against ecumenism and apostasy. So I knew
from an early age that I needed to be saved to get to Heaven,
but I did nothing about it, I never even really thought
about it, yet if anyone had asked me if I was saved, I said
that I was. I continued on through primary school without
much trouble, as there were a few other people who went
to the Free Church and for those who didn't, the fact that
I did wasn't an issue. It was when I moved on to the local
Grammar school that the problems started. In my year there
were 105 people, out of whom only myself and one other person
attended the Free Church. There were also a number of Catholics
in my year as well so I didn't really have Christian company
at school, but at that time that didn't bother me because
I just wanted to "fit in" and be the same as everybody else.
As time wore on, I became more and more like those "friends",
I started to talk the way they talked and act the way they
acted, and I wanted to go to the places they went to. But
at home, it was different; I went to church, went to Youth
Fellowship and basically acted like any other young person
who went to the church.
It wasn't until 1998 that
things changed. I was at church one night and Mr. McCrea
was preaching a very solemn sermon about Hell. I can't remember
the passage that he preached on, or much of what he said,
the only phrase I can remember is "where the worm dieth
not and the fire is not quenched." And that phrase scared
me. I knew that if I died that night, I would be in Hell.
But yet I did nothing. I walked out of church that night
the same as any other night, but I was troubled by what
I had heard. Later that night, I could resist no longer
and at the side of my bed, my Mother led me to the Lord.
What a difference, where before there had been an emptyness,
there was now a peace and great joy because I knew that
I was saved and on my way to Heaven. Since then, I have
never looked back, I've failed many times, but the Lord
has always been there to pick up the pieces. Many people
would say, "I would love to get saved, but I couldn't keep
it, and I don't want to be a hypocrite" to those people
I would say, stop looking for excuses, surrender your life
to Christ and He will keep you. It's not down to you to
"keep it".
There have been many trials
in my life since I got saved, especially in the past couple
of years but the Lord has been there through them all and
has helped me every step of the way. I really don't know
how I managed to live without him for so long.
No one ever gave the guarantee
that the Christian life would be an easy life, and I'm glad
they didn't because it's not, in fact it's probably a more
difficult life, BUT, with one HUGE difference, you have
Christ to bring you through all the trials that the Devil
will throw at you, and there will be many of them, many
temptations, losing friends & family, but Christ will reward
you in eternity.
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