What is your testimony of Faith?

Question

I don not know when I became a Christian, I just remember realizing that I was. I just went to church with my parents because that was what I was supposed to do. Then, when I was 13 and in the 8th grade, my cousin was murdered in Philadelphia. It made me so sick for the longest time. Then almost an exact year later, my uncle and my grandma died a week apart. I was already struggling with the loss of my cousin and I now had to deal with losing 2 more people. I was so angry and so bitter that I wanted nothing to do with anyone. It felt like I was all alone. Later that year in April, I went to a concert called BattleCry in Baltimore witha friend and her church and I saw the Newsboys. There, I rededicated my life to Christ. Since that moment I was diagnosed with type1 diabetes. I was hurt because I thought it was unfair that I had the disease when other people were perfectly healthy. Sometimes I still get angry about having to live the rest of my life with this disease, but...

I have learned that I can do anything through Christ who strenghtens me, and can be an outreach for other people who struggle with faith because of illness. God has a special plan for me, I just don't know what it is yet. I eventually hope to go to Africa or a similar country to work in the medical field. So many fatal diseases over there are so treatable in this country. I can live with juvenile diabetes, a small child in Africa suffering from it, cannot. At least, not without our help.

So tell me, what is your testimony, and how are you living out your life in Christ?

Answer 1

Hello and first allow me to point out we go through trials for a great reason, it is not to tell God something about you, He already knows about you, trials is to tell you about you, and when going through something hard DO NOT take your eyes off Christ, like peter walking on the water with Christ, he was fine until he took those eyes off Christ then he sank, the water represents the problems in life Jesus allows us to walk on but DO NOT take your eyes off Christ to put your attention on your problems or you like peter WILL SINK, my testamony is its not enough to just have faith, to believe you must BE-LIVE you must have a faith that takes action, "IF" you Love me [then] keep my commandments John 14:15 find out more free bible lessons www.amazingfacts.org God bless.

Answer 2

Sorry about your issues. Thought I'd just throw this in...the writer of Hebrew says "The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being..." (Heb 1:3) Jesus is the exact representation of God. In all things you can look to the life of Jesus and know exactly what God thinks about things. You can know God's will through the life of Jesus.


Anywho... I recently just answered a similiar question. Thought I'd just cut&paste it here...

Originally saved around 12ish.

Left the faith when I was 19ish. (Saw hypocrisy in Christian leaders that I respected... namely my dad... I'm a preacher's kid...)

Came back at around 27... Suicidal at the time and stopped at a local church... I say local... OK I drove from Kansas to Virginia planning on drowning myself in the ocean... Yes a little excessive... I know... This church I had attended when I was a kid and I thought I'd give God one last time before I did it to prove to me He was real. I stopped on Thursday night. The deadline was the Sunday service. What happened?

They called the cops on Friday morning. Didn't even talk to me. Had the pleasure of being taken...in hand cuffs... to the psych ward of the local hospital. Got coerced into telling my family I was there and came back home.

Well long story short... after a few more months I came back to faith in Christ because of the book "Evidence that Demands a Vedict".

I could go into detail about exactly why I believe but it's essentially all in that book. God bless.

Answer 3

I don't know why but I honestly didn't believe in god until a few months ago a spiritual calling came to me from christ.I can't explain why but I know i'm happier when I became christian.

Answer 4

Sad to know about your losses.

As you can see.. it's overwhelmingly evident that god doesn't exist or surely doesn't care.

You can say that god might just be testing me... but then again.. think about it.. why would "All knowing" god, test something or "want to know" something?

Why would god want to plan something?

If I chop your legs and tell you that it's all good and it's all in god's plan, will you agree and live happily or will you complain a bit against it?