What is your testimony?

9/11/2018

While reading my Bible I came upon Acts 23:11. Right after reading this the thought came to my mind; I would like that to happen to me. The very next thought was “but, I do not want to go through all that Paul did.”

How many times have we heard of people that have had great faith shown in ways that sounds supernatural? If you are like me, you might wish that you had that same great faith. However, have you ever thought of what they went through to get to that point?

We find in the book of Acts, chapter 23, the story of Paul, having been arrested was called to defend himself. How a group of people wanted to kill him. How God worked to protect Paul’s life. Then in verse 11, God let Paul know they would not succeed. God did it by coming to him and talking with him. It makes me want this to happen to me, until I remember what happed to Paul before this.

Then God reminded of the time that someone asked if I would be willing to give a testimony about a period in my life; to me that period was no big deal. I did not then and still today cannot see why that would give me an inspiring testimony. I lived that time because of the prayers that had been prayed and mainly because I felt Jesus right there with me and I willingly state that I only made it because Jesus was with me.

This is how Paul must have felt. It was no big deal because Jesus was with him. He got a visit from the Lord and it did not scare him or put him in the position of being shock because of the life he had been living.

God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost are there for us in our daily walk. They are as real and as close as we let them be. The more we pray and the closer we get to them the better life will be. The more peace we will have. The more that people will want our testimony. The more they will want what we have. Jesus, God and the Holy Ghost, thank you for loving us.

C.I. Wilson