My Testimony: The Nutshell
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a different place, at a different time, as a different person.
I began to become aware that God IS. Even more astounding
was that He was calling into my spirit, expressing His desire
that I come to know Him !
As a partaker of drugs and alcohol since pre-adolescence,
it was a bit surprising that, now in my thirties, God was
revealing His existence to me and even cared about me.
Perhaps,more accurately, I was now "hearing" Him call.
From the pages of a lay-level book about "Chaos
Theory" the truth was revealed that there is undeniable
order at the most infinitesimal levels of understanding
in physics.
Mind you, this was a secular publication, not a creation-oriented
work.
God's hand of provision reached-out to provide
me a means of leaving the place I knew as "home", as well
as a way to depart from the foggy lifestyle of a "stoner".
Though I had not yet accepted Jesus as my Savior
and Lord, He was already trying to show me some lessons
about people and love, and life and society.
I had looked at a few verses of Scripture before,
but had decided to finally read the Bible in its entirety.
It was while undertaking this that the Lord used the most
unseemly person to draw me into fellowship. A Wednesday
night service was the first time I'd set foot in a church
in over a decade. Passing through the sanctuary after delivering
a niece to youth services, the pastor's sermon caught my
ear so I sat to listen.
The combination of Bible reading,(which I had
begun in order to determine if it contained the contradictions
often attributed it by non-believers) and acquaintance with
a warm,welcoming,non-judgemental congregation, and frequent
discussions with the pastor and others showed me God's love,grace
and truth.
With-in a couple of months I was asking Jesus
into my heart!!! Hallelujah!!!
Since that time the Lord has guided and provided
many lessons and blessings, the greatest of them is His
expession of love for me through Karen, who He brought to
be my wife.
