How God is getting my attention

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What is your testimony? Your testimony is Your personal story of how God got your attention and drew you into a relationship with Him through His Son, Jesus Christ.

I’ve been asked to answer the above question. I’ve pondered it for a couple of days. I’m posting this tonight, due to a planned outage by Blogger, as well as schedule conflicts tomorrow.

I don’t even remember when I first began a relationship with Jesus. I know it was at a summer Christian camp. I know the year, because after having supposedly done so, my mom informed me that I should get baptized. Did I understand it all? No. Did I have doubts, questions? YES. It was that way for a couple more summers at camp. I would be filled with doubts, questions, and therefore ‘rededicate’ my life…thinking that somehow that would make the doubts go away. Then finally one kind staff person about 4 years after my ‘initial decision’, asked about my walk with Jesus. I told her I wasn’t sure, and then she showed me from Scripture the way to know for sure. We prayed. Then I KNEW I was going to heaven!! I knew I was a part of God’s family!! Oh the joy!

Those years as a child and a youth at that summer camp, was my true Christian training ground. I never wanted to go home. I would remember the lessons learned, the quiet times with God, His glorious nature, all thru the year until the next summer camp season.

Struggles came to my family, as I became a teenager. I was the oldest and had to shoulder a lot of the burden. Due to my father’s health problems, and his inability to work, we became poor. We struggled. God got my attention, thru daily, tiny things. It varied, from different things in nature, thru passages of Scripture, etc. I prayed and journaled a lot. God saw me thru.

Even today, God is still getting my attention. See my previous posts to read more about what I’ve been learning in the past few weeks.(Edit: Also see my subsequent posts following this one, for other things the Lord has brought to my attention). All I can say now is that God is worthy of our trust. He is faithful. He is the Lord. He is loving.