A testimony by C.C.
You Are Never Too Young or Too Old to Have God In Your Life
I used to call myself Christian but did really knew what it was.
When I was 12 I took extra lessons, other kids went there too and I made friends with some of them. I was the girl whom every one wanted to talk to. I had an iPhone as a kid, which then was considered cool. This I never knew until I was complemented a lot, not just because of my phone but also because of the clothes I wore; my house; my face; body.
I started to get stuck up, started to try to impress people, wanted and listened to the latest song, the obscene ones, the ones with cussing and all.. in short… I wanted to grow up before I did. All that seemed fun, talking about the naughty stuff, wanting to have boyfriends before it was timed. well… it was a horror now that I look back, it destroys you slowly and the devil is getting the hook on you.
When I was still my old self… a woman used to come over from a church (Jehovah’s Witness), somethings she taught I questioned like ‘hell doesn’t exist. Why would God punish people if he is a loving God?’.
I read the bible before and knew that hell existed, and me being taught different things brought questions which were eventually answered. After a while, she stopped coming because my parents did not like her coming.
When I was 13, I changed schools, a Christian school and I was in year 8 about that time, so each year the school would have this thing called ‘spiritual emphasis’ for a week, in that week a group of people from outside would talk about a topic which was in that time ‘wearing the armor of God’, this is found in (Ephesians 6:10-18).
One day in that week, they played the song ‘The Heart of Worship, whose lyrics go like this…
“When the music fades
All is stripped away
And I simply come
Longing just to bring
Something that’s of worth
That will bless your heart
I’ll bring you more than a song
For a song in itself
Is not what you have required
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
You’re looking into my heart
I’m coming back to the heart of worship
And it’s all about you,
It’s all about you, Jesus
I’m sorry, Lord, for the thing I’ve made it
When it’s all about you,
It’s all about you, Jesus
King of endless worth
No one could express
How much you deserve
Though I’m weak and poor
All I have is yours
Every single breath
I’ll bring you more than a song
For a song in itself
Is not what you have required
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
You’re looking…
THIS SONG BROKE MY HEART, THE WORDS SPOKE, GOD WAS MOVING INSIDE ME, MY RENEWAL CAME AND WAS THERE!
I asked one of the preachers speaking if hell existed, he replied saying ‘yes’, but that was not enough, I had to search for myself, the questions I had about hell encouraged me to read the Bible for my self , God’s breath speaking to me.
Revelation 21:8 ESV
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
( you are probably thinking that you won’t make it since you’ve done at least one of these…we cant be Perfect or good, this why we need to Jesus living in us, he directs us, yes we will slip, but that does not mean we continue in our dead path, worshipping the devil through our sin.)
Matthew 10:28 ESV
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matthew 25:46 ESV
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Hebrews 10:26-27 ESV
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
Romans 7:15 ESV / 139 helpful votes
For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
I don’t want to go back to my past. I love my relationship with God and never want to be far from him, I am nothing without him, he really is indescribable, I cant wait for his coming! Before when I didn’t know God even though I knew he existed, I did not know him, I lived a life that was non-existent of him, when he was near. you see, the demons know God, but do their actions show it, faith and action work together.
I changed, not instantly, still growing, took a while, I have many difficulties, I changed my type of music ( music is powerful, big influence of our lives), sometimes I fell back, but God took a hold of me and still does , he caught me again, I am still growing. God was calling out to me when I lived my sinful life, but I just didn’t take the time to discern and read his word.
I regret how I lived before, but God has washed me white as snow.
its been 5 years since that.
You are never too young or old to have God in your life. You are chosen, handpicked, formed before you were to be. You are loved. He is coming for you!
