It took me a while to figure out exactly what my Testimony was. I've met people who received their Salvation like a light being flipped on. But I am a woefully stubborn creature. For me, finally accepting Salvation was quite a journey that took up 2/3 of my life so far...and I didn't come quietly.
I am a 31 year old Christian. I have been "christian" for most of my life, but I was Saved just after meeting my husband, about six years ago.
I was born into a nominally Eastern Orthodox/Roman Catholic household but my parents left thier respective faiths rather early in my life. This means I was actually raised with an odd mix of "lapsed" Christian, secular humanist, and outright foreign/pagan influences.
Growing up under the firm teaching that Truth was relative and we should all seek our own, I set about looking for "God" everywhere. I am singularly blessed that the Lord instilled in me a sense of His existence that I couldn't ignore (or I'd have probably ended up Atheist), but in my confusing surroundings I spent a lot of time as Agnostic.
I've "been" more religions than many people have studied. I also studied Religion (from a secular standpoint) as one of my majors in college (I was all of six credits away from completion of my BA when I quit). Eventually I was led to pagan and then quite anti-Christian paths. During that time, I used my academic skills to rip into the Bible in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek with the intent of somehow "disproving" what was written there as mistranslated or mythological.
The reverse occurred. I buried myself in the words of God with the intent to change the opinion of the world about them. But the Word changed me instead. The more I studied the Bible, the more I was had to admit that the messages written there were better than anything I'd read anywhere else. I eventually had to accept that it really required more "faith" (or stubbornness) to "disprove" it than it did to believe it.
Slowly my heart was opened to the fact that the Truth that I was fruitlessly seeking everywhere else had been uniquely given to a specific people according to a specific Divine plan.
So here I am, listening to the Lord so that I may learn the part He has for me in that plan.
I am a 31 year old Christian. I have been "christian" for most of my life, but I was Saved just after meeting my husband, about six years ago.
I was born into a nominally Eastern Orthodox/Roman Catholic household but my parents left thier respective faiths rather early in my life. This means I was actually raised with an odd mix of "lapsed" Christian, secular humanist, and outright foreign/pagan influences.
Growing up under the firm teaching that Truth was relative and we should all seek our own, I set about looking for "God" everywhere. I am singularly blessed that the Lord instilled in me a sense of His existence that I couldn't ignore (or I'd have probably ended up Atheist), but in my confusing surroundings I spent a lot of time as Agnostic.
I've "been" more religions than many people have studied. I also studied Religion (from a secular standpoint) as one of my majors in college (I was all of six credits away from completion of my BA when I quit). Eventually I was led to pagan and then quite anti-Christian paths. During that time, I used my academic skills to rip into the Bible in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek with the intent of somehow "disproving" what was written there as mistranslated or mythological.
The reverse occurred. I buried myself in the words of God with the intent to change the opinion of the world about them. But the Word changed me instead. The more I studied the Bible, the more I was had to admit that the messages written there were better than anything I'd read anywhere else. I eventually had to accept that it really required more "faith" (or stubbornness) to "disprove" it than it did to believe it.
Slowly my heart was opened to the fact that the Truth that I was fruitlessly seeking everywhere else had been uniquely given to a specific people according to a specific Divine plan.
So here I am, listening to the Lord so that I may learn the part He has for me in that plan.
