Psalm 78:5 “For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:”

Psalm 78:6 “That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:”

Psalm 78:7 “That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:”

Hello readers, recently I was asked to write my testimony down. And so that’s what this blog is about.. my testimony. And I’d like to make this blog post a page not only where mine is, but where you as a reader, if you are saved, can testify also to who Christ is and what he’s done in your life …

… in the hope that through the testimonies on here, which when one happens upon this page, they may believe for themselves because of what we have testified and “him” who we have attested to “Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.”

Great things… he has done them FOR me, and as Mary said, he has done great things TO me “My soul doth magnify the Lord… For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name.”

I always used to eyeroll inside a bit when it came to people asking people for their testimonies. Maybe it was because I didn’t understand the point or power of a testimony, or maybe it was because I didn’t have a testimony yet in my life… or maybe it was because it seemed to me a bit more of an empty Christian cliché and blowing of one’s own trumpet like we are something… when we are nothing.

… Whatever the case, I have come to understand the importance of personal testimony… not about me, but about Christ, about who Jesus is to me, and what he’s done for me. It’s inspired thankfulness and hopefully rather than a “few and evil have the days of the years of my life been” type attitude!

Who Jesus is and what Jesus has done for me? Well, even if not for anybody else… God did this for me. God has given me my own story, and my own personal experience with the very same God whose Spirit moved upon the face of the deep back in Genesis, the very same God that delivered the children of Israel out of slavery in Egypt… and he also delivered me, little old me “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”

Recently, I looked up the word testimony in the Bible, and I found the very first mention is capital “T”… Testimony. Hmm, I wonder what … or rather “WHO”… that is talking about! You see, I’ve come to realize that a Christian’s testimony is not about themselves, but about their Saviour. Jesus Christ is the Testimony, and he is my Testimony. And I can and should testify of Jesus Christ because he’s done so much in my life “The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.”

I discovered personally that God is not for “back then”. He’s been for me too, for my time, for my now. As much as he was in the past, he’s been my present and is my future. And after letting me experience a little bit of life under “Laban” he made me glad to have him and serve him in this world. He’s the best master and Lord anyone could hope for. With him, in his word, in his will, in his way is the only place to be. He makes life worth living… because he is the reason for living. He was the cause of life, because in him is life. There is no living without him, he’s exchanged a feast for my funeral of a life I was living without him “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”

A testimony isn’t anything I’ve done. It’s what he’s done. It’s what he did. It’s what he does. It’s what he will yet do. Thank goodness my testimony isn’t about me, because it’s a hall of shame far more than any hall of fame… but he bore my shame, and he nailed it to his cross, he took it away so I could be part of his glory. He was crucified naked, so my nakedness could be covered and clothed upon in true righteousness and immortality. I thank him for that.

Jesus Christ has saved me from my sins. I feel a hypocrite writing that because I still have battles with sin in my life, and battles due to my fleshly nature that will be fought until my last breath… and yet he has saved me from them. He’s forgiven me. He’s washed me. He cleansed me. He’s already glorified me, I just haven’t arrived there yet… but it’s inevitable… because he promised. I can testify that he makes promises and keeps them.

Now, my life is really just coming to an understanding, comprehension and realization of what he has already provided for me, and done to me “Know ye what I have done to you?” The thought struck me years ago that before I ever would need or saw a need for a Saviour… God had already provided my Saviour for me. He foresaw my need before I was born, then before I started actively sinning against him and all the while… truly “the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation”.

I was raised in a Christian home, and I didn’t appreciate it even nearly at the time, but now with age and hindsight I can say I have been very blessed, undeservingly so, in having the opportunity at life I have had. I don’t have the same excuses many have, and yet even when raised in a Christian home, there is still just as much, if not more, work to be done in the heart as if I wasn’t.

I’ve always felt God’s hand on my life. I’ve always had his still small voice. … but I haven’t always known it nor have I obeyed it. When I was young, there were numerous times God’s Spirit moved on my heart… but “Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him.” One day, I responded for myself. And he gave me the grace to do so. I will always feel so undeserving and so unworthy … why me?

There was a defining moment, unknown to any other person on the planet, but that happened in my life when I was young, where I felt God convicting me of my sin, and making me aware of my need to be saved. At that point, I believed and trusted in Jesus Christ for my Saviour myself. I was sealed that day “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved…”

But… from that point has been many battles. Personal battles, private battles, and an endurance that has only come through Christ in me, working in my life, undeniable even when I denied him. …One day a guy called Moses saw a bush on fire in a desert, burning and yet not consumed, and that caused him to turn aside in wonder. He had to find out how and through whom this was possible. This Moses had tried getting something done in his life once long ago, something which God had put on his heart, which was a good thing… but he’d tried doing it in his own power… and he burnt out pretty darn quick. …But with God there is no burn out “The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.” I would burn out in a heartbeat if God abandoned me… but he promised me “…for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”

Really, I know why testimony is capital T… because my testimony could only ever be about my Saviour and not about me. Because I’ve been a failure, and though made worthy, often walked so unworthy. The only testament that I could give as to myself is “Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy: That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it.” Whatever has been accomplished in my life that has been good or right or acceptable or even wonderful… it has been all him.

God has gone above and beyond in my life. In saving me from sin, in more deliverances than I can count, in tender mercies when I’ve been long time astray, in being so much better to me than I deserve, in changing my heart, in giving me a life worth living. He’s so high and I’m so low, he’s so high he has to humble himself to dwell in heaven, I’m so low I belong in the pit yet which he delivered me from, and lifted me up and out, and set my feet on a solid rock, and gave me a place at the kings table, his table, as his son, when not worthy to be called his son.

I thank God that he is and has been the God of the impossible in my life, the whole way! “For with God nothing shall be impossible” and “And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord” and “(for he is faithful that promised;)” … I love the parenthesis… they’re just for me! Just that little reminder I need as I stumble and falter… God is faithful, even when I’m not, even when I haven’t been, but I thank him that his faithfulness has inspired some pathetic measure of faith in me.

It’s perhaps a bit of an unusual way of writing a testimony, but all I can say is that God saved me, he dwells in me, that he’s never left me and is always with me… he’s been true to his word, he’s kept his promise, he does hear and answer prayers and he is doing a work in my life that is far above and beyond my finite mind “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,” I’d settle for so much less, thank God it’s up to him, in his hands and his power.

My testimony is that God is powerful. He has ALL power. And he’s been powerful enough to save me, to overcome the wicked one in my life… and if he could save me, he can you too! And I found in my life that Jesus didn’t just give me everlasting life, he gave me ABUNDANT life. He didn’t just save me from hell in the future, he saved me in the here and now. I realized he doesn’t just change my destination, but he changes me. It’s all because he has the power to do so, he had the power to create something new in my life. He didn’t reform me, he regenerated me and he renews me daily. Thank God he’s been not just the Creator of Genesis 1:1, but he created something good, new and untouched by sin within me in my life.

Thank you for reading my testimony. I could write much more and fear I may have worn out your attention. But in heaven they cast their crowns and they say “worthy is the Lamb”… God has crowned me with life, because his Son took a crown of thorns. Worthy is the Lamb. He was willing to hear and willing to save me, I’ve never worn out his grace and never will. Trusting in him is the best decision I ever made, and I thank God he gave me the grace to do so, and I just pray he’d help me trust him more and more, because he’s the one thing that doesn’t fail in this world and life. I thank him and praise him for his glorious salvation which he has made me a partaker of and hence I join in “Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.”

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