Baptism Testimony

                                                                                                               Sarah

I grew up in a Christian family so I was able to attend Church pretty often. Before we moved back to California from Texas a few years back, I didn't pay much attention in Church. I realize now that most of the people in my Sunday School class knew more about the Bible than I did. Whenever we played Jeopardy or the teacher asked questions, I wouldn't know half the answers, even if the teacher had told us the answers in the lessons before.

I noticed after I moved that people who aren't Christians have something missing in their lives, and don't have the joy that we have from God. Like the passage in Job 8, people who are godless trust in fragile things. When they get into difficult situations, they turn to these things for support, but they give way and don't hold. Sometimes when I prayed to God, the things that I asked for didn't happen. I would wonder why, but then something else would happen that would make me grateful that what I had asked for didn't happen. God was telling me to trust Him.

 Once when I read Hebrews 11:1, "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see," I tried to figure out if that was true in my life about God. I'm not sure if that was the right thing to do at the time, but it was true. If God hadn't had me read The Purpose Driven Life, I wouldn't be entirely sure about whether or not I was giving my life to God.

 Jesus really made a difference in my life. I used to not even want to go to Church, but he changed the way I felt about it by letting me move to a different environment. Something that I kept remembering was that everything in my life is there for a reason. The problems in my family brought me closer to God, instead of pushing me away from Him. I ended up depending on Him for strength and comfort. These trials reminded me that god alone is the Rock Eternal, and that I should place all of my trust in Him. I used to worry a lot, but now I'm trying to bear in mind that God is in control, and that my life is in His hands. Like my mother said, God will work in His ways at just the right time. He is never too late and never too early.