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Christ By
Accident
My mother raised me in a
Christian home. She was a strong
believer. I suppose I always believed a
God existed but I mostly spent my life believing merely because I was raised to
believe. By age 18, I just couldn’t believe anymore. I mean, really, believing a guy came back
from the dead? It seemed just too
impossible to believe. Then a pastor I knew named David Ralph showed me how
everything the Bible tells us is absolutely true. Through apologetics, he
showed me that accepting Christ as divine is not just a faith belief, although
that is part of it, but that there are logical reasons to accept that He is God
and did, indeed, rise from the dead.
Even though I listened and accepted what he was saying, I still wasn’t
ready to give my life completely over to God, mostly because of how my life was
going then. I had lost my girlfriend, my
job was going nowhere and I lost many friends.
Admittedly, I grew suicidal. It
was this difficult life that prevented me from fully following God.
One January morning, while
driving to my lame job on the highway, I wondered if it would really matter if
I drove off the highway killing myself? Well, at that moment, a block of ice flew off
the truck in front of me smashing into my windshield, causing me to swerve off
the road flipping my car three times.
When it was over, I felt stunned.
What shocked me most was my glee at remaining alive. I escaped the
“totaled” vehicle with a mere cut lip. I
felt amazement at being happy to remain alive.
A few minutes earlier, I had entertained suicide. At that moment, however, I realized certainty
in that God saved me because He had a purpose for me. My life possessed value,
after all. I then gave my life over to Him and told Him I wanted to know His
plan for me so I could follow. Soon
later, I enrolled in Bible school.
Today is my third year in Bible
school. It’s probably the best choice I ever made. Strange to me to think that it took almost
losing my life in a car accident to make me realize how important I am to God. For
that, I shall remain forever thankful to Him.
Thank you for reading my
testimony.
God bless,
Patrick
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