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Testimony: All Things Are Possible With God
Magdalena's testimony "All Things Are Possible With God" on 10/06/2014, 1:18pm...
Hello!
First of all I want to say thank you to the author of this blog. I also want to say that I enjoyed reading so many of these testimonies (I didn't have time to read them all) and can relate to so many things such as abusive pasts and other troubles in life.
I was on the internet looking to see if they have websites for rededicated Christians to share testimonies and fellowship and I stumbled across this site. Mine is of that variety too. There are so many different varieties of that too that I wonder if anyone else can relate to mine. It is long and I will make it as abbreviated as possible. There is so much doctrine that people want to get into (eternal security, you weren't saved to begin with, etc.) and to avoid that I will keep it simple.
I know I was saved at age 15. I had every evidence of it that you could write on a list. I had a solid Christian walk for about 10 years. After that one thing lead to another from broken marriage to financial problems, etc.
I was young and 'backslid' in the most likely way under the circumstances. One thing lead to another as I felt guilty and didn't read much of the bible during that time. People at church were very self righteous and only cared about pursuing the 'American dream' and had no compassion for helping the poor or any other issues either for that matter.
There were a lot of things that made me really wonder about what they said. It seemed so heartless in a troubled world. Anyway I went back to college after my divorce and transferred to the university so I didn't have time for church then. One thing lead to another and I looked at a lot of philosophies from many perspectives. In the process I got tangled up in all these ideologies and became jaded about the 'church' perspective on a lot of things. I read various books and again... one thing lead to another.
I doubted my faith and all kinds of things and have heard that this happens to many people at school. After I graduated I got a job and began working in the helping profession that I had chosen before. I still had the goals of helping people in many ways, only looked at things differently. As things went on, the situation became more dreary and depressing as I saw all these people with all these problems and there was no solution for them.
My own life was spiraling downward because of despair and other troubles. I felt like there was no help to offer anyone, nor any for myself either and that life just wasn't worth living anymore and I became very depressed. It was during this time that the Lord came looking for me and started drawing me back to Him.
After a series of events I rededicated myself to Him and immediately felt like I had spun on a dime, all my sorrow was replaced with joy and light and peace. I got back into the Bible and it all began to make perfect sense to me again. I marveled at how I could have drifted so far away.
I saw how Jesus is the only solution to all of these problems and the root of the problem is human nature and sin, the remedy truly is salvation through Him. He came looking for me like a lost sheep and brought me back into His fold. Everything made more and more sense to me and everything fell into place one thing at a time in my life. This was two years ago during the summer.
Shortly after this I wanted to go to church again but didn't know where to go anymore. I prayed about this and among many other things He showed me, he also showed me about what is going on now and all about the apostasy in the churches and how we are living in the days of 2 Thessalonians 2. None of this would be possible if God wasn't real or didn't care about us as individuals, but He is and He does.
So, to make a really long story short, that's what happened and now I am happily serving and following Him. I wanted to share this so that people will know that no matter how far away you have strayed from God, if you turn to Him again, He will take you back with open arms and embrace you with love, forgiveness, and acceptance no matter what! If you have never turned to Him, I encourage you to do it today. Read Romans 3; 23-28 and Revelation 3; 20.
God bless you all!