How God Changed My Life

Today, I want to give you my testimony which in Christian circles means how Christ saved me.

Now, when most other people hear this stuff, they usually tune out the Christian.

If you are not part of us – the Christian “bunch” that is – then please read on anyway and maybe you’re opinion of us might change us a little instead thinking we are a big bunch of fools.

When I was a kid, I was just ordinary kid and lived in an ordinary family. We went to church which I  was the Catholic church every week for our 1 hour of Mass. I attended a Catholic school. I didn’t know or understand why I was going to church. None of it made any sense and I wanted it to. I, at first, wanted to be a saint when I grew up. Then, I found out you had to be canonized and do all kinds of miracles so I switched to a witch instead. It was more fun and a lot easier.

Fortunately, I outgrew that phase and still felt empty inside and laden with sin in spite of my religious activities. Most people, I guess, ignore their conscience and try to excuse themselves and go on without any contact with a higher power. I had trouble doing this.

Then, one day when I was just minding my own business, God showed up. I went to Mass for our weekly 1 hour dose of religion. Down at the altar to receive the Eucharist, it came out of the priest’s fingers and landed on my hand. I put it in my mouth and a message entered my head. It was as if God was speaking to me and I was very afraid. The message was: “Do not fear! Something bad is going to happen to you and your family today, but I will take care of you.”

I didn’t know what to make of this and being a 13 year old, my parents didn’t believe any of it and said it was “hormones”. Well, that night my father passed away around 10:00. His last words were “I’ll always be with you”. He had died of a massive heart attack.

Now, God had gotten my attention. Two years later a girl came up to me in the front of my high school and asked me a profound question I could not answer. She asked me “Do you know the four spiritual laws?” I answered her honestly and said “No, I don’t.” She told me why Jesus died on the cross, not just for the sins of the whole world, like my church had always said, but for my individual sins. That made a lot of sense and I had never heard of it before. I accepted Christ right then and there as my own personal savior. From then on, I began to read the Bible and attend prayer meetings which were popular back then in the early ‘70’s.

Finally, I left my church and went to other churches to find the perfect fit. Since I didn’t know much back then about churches (and there was no internet) I finally ended up in a nondenominational church that was small then but today is a mega church. They helped me further to grow in my faith and become a stronger Christian. That is where I met my husband, Bob.

So you see, God reaches down to us and we have to open our hearts to him. When we reject him, we reject life and joy and healing and hope. Don’t do that! Accept Christ today and let Him change your life. The peace and joy He bestows is phenomenal even in the midst of trials.