So I recently had to write my testimony for something so I figured I might as well put it on here too :) So here ya go!
As I looked into the deep, dark, smelly, snake infested water below I got this feeling of fear. The longer I stayed on that broken, rotten tree limb the closer I felt to the water. The only thing keeping me from falling into that water was that old tree limb. As a ten year old child, I was putting all of my faith and trust in that limb. How foolish I was to put faith in such an insecure item. My faith in Christ has been based so many times on insecure things such as, what I feel and and think. I began my walk with Christ at the age of five, I remember being amazed at the fact that someone could love me more then my Dad. One night after asking many questions and thinking about what Jesus had done for me on the cross, I made the decision to become a child of God by believing that Jesus died for me and asking Him to forgive my sins. That night I started a long journey with Christ that will not end until the day I leave this world and enter the presence of God. Faith in God came so much easier to me as a child because it did not matter if I could see him or not and I knew in my heart that He loved me. Although, through this journey as a teen I struggled with knowing that God loved me. I love to please people and whenever I see any hint of disappointment from someone I'm crushed. So I just figured that every day of my life was just a disappointment to God because I'm not perfect and sin. So why should He love me? Even today I struggle with this lie that Satan uses often to discourage me and unfortunately this is just one of many lies that Satan has used during my journey to throw me off course. But through these 12 years of having a personal relationship with my Creator, I have learned that God's love for me is unconditional and endless no matter how many wrong things I do in a day. As well as, that I should put my faith in the truth of His word that can sustain any lie Satan will ever bring my way.
Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
