My Testimony

I think most people normally think their testimony is boring and not impressive. However, I would say the opposite is more true.

I wasn't into drugs or an alcoholic and got saved, but I did get saved from my life of sin. I'm not perfect now though, my sinning continues on just like everybody else's does. I was saved at 5 years old and my parents have always been helping me in my walk with God. However, it wasn't until the past few years that I really started chasing God.

Growing up in a Christian family can easily make you go to church and to talk to God out of habit instead of out of love for God. I would say that it is almost harder for a kid growing up in a Christian family to become serious with God more than someone who did not. Yes it may be hard for non-Christian raised kids to find Jesus, but when they do they don't know Him because of what others said. Being raised in a Christian family you may not think you need help, but at some point all kids eventually must choose God because they want to know Him and they need Him.

I'm not really sure what changed me, but it happened. Maybe it was partially from my learning experience about pride from snowboarding that I wrote about in My Story- The Little Snowboarder in me. Either way during the time I was starting to grow much closer to God my youth group and I went to City Challenge in Ohio. During the time there I was stretched not only in my comfort zone physically, but also spiritually.

When I was there I learned that raising hands during worship wasn't a religious thing to do or show of goodness, but that when you truly love and are worshiping God raising your hands is just one more thing you can offer to God in worship. I also learned about silent prayer. Before City challenge I never really I understood prayer, for me it was just me presenting requests to God and thanking Him because that's what you do. What I learned there was that prayer is a conversation between me and God. I never really thought about the fact that prayer is conversation, not a verbalizing of requests to give to someone like Santa. I also later on developed a real realization of all the things God does for me. Now I really want to thank Him because I love Him and I know He deserves it. No more was the fact that I should thank God a mere "what your supposed to do" thing. Because I know realize what God has done for me, I feel like my thanks is not enough and it isn't.

The time when I was at City Challenge was the moment I really started to think deeply about things. I guess that since last summer I have changed greatly and it's written not only in this testimony, but on every page of this blog. Even though I'm calling this post "My Testimony" a more in depth display of my testimony or testimonies would be in all my blog posts. I hope my testimony keeps on traveling to a greater more profound relationship with God and that I can impact peoples lives with God's love.

Disclaimer: I'm sure some of you think your testimony isn't exciting or great because you grew up in a Christian home, were saved at a young age, and never did any thing "really bad". However, your testimony is developing into something great as you read this. The important thing about a testimony is how close you are to God not how far away you are from your sin.