A Life Forever Changed!
I was thinking back on my life, and today I felt led to share my testimony. I am going to be completely transparent with you because I want you to know that God saves sinners and changes lives for our good and for His glory! I was raised in church and have been in and out of church the majority of my life. I heard all of the stories about Jesus. I listened to Christian songs. I even read my Bible from time to time, but I was still the same as the rest of the world. By that I mean, I did everything the rest of the world did-I was no different. I went through most of my growing up years trying to fill the void with so many destructive things ....the void that only my Jesus could fill.
Somewhere along the way, I developed an eating disorder that stayed with me for years to come. I was trapped and in bondage and on my own, did not see any way out. I was in the pit. The pit of despair, the pit of trying to do things on my own and the pit of gratifying my own selfish desires. I remember like it was yesterday, one night I was in the bathroom and I began weeping and telling God I needed help. I hated what I was doing, I hated who I had become....I had come to the end of myself.
God had plans for me. About a month after that night, I was taken to the hospital because I had to have emergency gall bladder surgery. I was in so much pain. I ended up staying in the hospital for five days because my gall bladder had become so inflamed and infected. I had many friends and family come to visit me while I was in the hospital, but I also had a lot of time by myself...thinking about life and how short and precious it was. After I got home from the hospital, I was so moved to read my Bible (no, this definitely was not a coincidence). It was God, drawing me with His Spirit. "No one can come to Me unless the Father draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day." John 6:44 A few days after I had been at home, I got down on my knees on the floor in my living room and prayed, sobbing uncontrollably.
God had removed the veil that had been over my eyes all my life. ""But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." 2 Corinthians 3:16-18 This wasn't anything I had done, it was all a gift of God's marvelous grace. God began doing a work within me-I no longer wanted to do the things I once did. He set me free once and for all from the addictions I once had. He took all of my sin and shame away and nailed it to the cross. He set me free. "The Lord sets prisoners free." Psalm 146:7 I am now "set free from sin and have become a slave to righteousness." Romans 6:18 This is a work that only God could do! "God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him, we might become the righteousness of God." 2 Corinthians 5:21
There is nothing too hard for God....there is no problem, no addiction, no pain that He cannot heal. He is Mighty! God is no respecter of persons....Christ died once and for ALL! "And He died for all.." 2 Corinthians 5:15 He is the only one who can fill your every need and all the longings deep within. You will be free from fear, condemnation and guilt."Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus, the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death." Romans 8:1-2 "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17 I am thanking and praising my Lord today for a life that is forever changed!
Somewhere along the way, I developed an eating disorder that stayed with me for years to come. I was trapped and in bondage and on my own, did not see any way out. I was in the pit. The pit of despair, the pit of trying to do things on my own and the pit of gratifying my own selfish desires. I remember like it was yesterday, one night I was in the bathroom and I began weeping and telling God I needed help. I hated what I was doing, I hated who I had become....I had come to the end of myself.
God had plans for me. About a month after that night, I was taken to the hospital because I had to have emergency gall bladder surgery. I was in so much pain. I ended up staying in the hospital for five days because my gall bladder had become so inflamed and infected. I had many friends and family come to visit me while I was in the hospital, but I also had a lot of time by myself...thinking about life and how short and precious it was. After I got home from the hospital, I was so moved to read my Bible (no, this definitely was not a coincidence). It was God, drawing me with His Spirit. "No one can come to Me unless the Father draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day." John 6:44 A few days after I had been at home, I got down on my knees on the floor in my living room and prayed, sobbing uncontrollably.
God had removed the veil that had been over my eyes all my life. ""But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." 2 Corinthians 3:16-18 This wasn't anything I had done, it was all a gift of God's marvelous grace. God began doing a work within me-I no longer wanted to do the things I once did. He set me free once and for all from the addictions I once had. He took all of my sin and shame away and nailed it to the cross. He set me free. "The Lord sets prisoners free." Psalm 146:7 I am now "set free from sin and have become a slave to righteousness." Romans 6:18 This is a work that only God could do! "God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him, we might become the righteousness of God." 2 Corinthians 5:21
There is nothing too hard for God....there is no problem, no addiction, no pain that He cannot heal. He is Mighty! God is no respecter of persons....Christ died once and for ALL! "And He died for all.." 2 Corinthians 5:15 He is the only one who can fill your every need and all the longings deep within. You will be free from fear, condemnation and guilt."Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus, the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death." Romans 8:1-2 "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17 I am thanking and praising my Lord today for a life that is forever changed!
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