Testimony Robin

Testimony/Robin

I was not raised as a Christian or in any other religion. My mother had taught me a few things about God, Jesus and praying, but there was no biblical teaching or Christian living going on in my home. We attended Church yearly when my grandparents invited us to go and the closest I had come to hearing the gospel that I can remember would probably have been the Jesus movies that used to play every year on Christmas. I really enjoyed those movies but had missed the message it was trying to teach.

Through the years I felt an emptiness inside myself, that life was meaningless. I looked for fulfillment in my life with things I knew were wrong. But years later at the age of twenty three I purchased a NIV Bible and read about three quarters of it. After reading it I felt condemned! I felt that I could never be like Jesus or his disciples. But a part of me loved my sin more than God. I didn’t understand God’s grace at that time and why Jesus had died on the cross, so I continued living a life of sin.

Just a few years later a friend invited me to Church and I jumped on the opportunity. The service began and people were singing to God, some had their hands in the air, it was all foreign to me so I thought it was a little strange. Soon the pastor came out and gave his message and then preached the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ. He said I had to repent from my sins and accept Jesus as Lord and Savior, basically Jesus became the one who saved me from the punishment of my sins. He paid for my sins by his death on a cross. A light went on inside me, Jesus Christ died for all my sins so I wouldn’t have to die with my sin and end up in hell.

God demonstrated His love toward me in that while I was still a sinner acting in rebellion toward God, Christ Jesus died for me. What a demonstration of love he had and has. An overwhelming feeling came over me to stand up and accept Jesus as my savior and to get rid of this burden of sin I had been carrying around with me all those years. My conscience soon was freed from the guilt of sin I had been carrying around for so long. That day I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior and I had become a Christian.

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