If you would like to review God's work in my life over the last 5 months then you can scroll down to the bottom of this page and read upwards in chronological order. I'll finish my last post with the testimony that I wrote for the Baptismal service.
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This baptism marks the beginning of an amazing journey for me. Already so much has changed that I feel like a very different person to who I was 5 months ago. With this baptism I submit to God, and give him joyful thanks for the incredible things he has done in my life. This testimony is about him, and how he found it in his incredible kindness to let me know his son, Jesus. Praise be to him for calling even the most hardened of hearts.
At the end of last year I was an Atheist, and any image of God I did have was skewed to fit my own perspective. Like lots of people I developed a set of beliefs that left me feeling morally vindicated and comfortable with the world. I had absolutely no wish to investigate the Bible, let alone step foot in a Church. Both were relics to me, and I had found my support in other places. I had never thought of Jesus, and couldn't for a moment understand why people put their faith in him.
Then, over the course of about a week, everything changed. Like a tornado that somehow pinpoints a leaf on the ground, God rushed through my life and settled me in a place that was completely foreign. With astonishing speed, he worked in my heart and demolished the strongholds of my intellectual and emotional objections to faith. Barriers that had been in place for years fell away, and my heart was finally pointing at someone who could look after it.
I thank God so much for his patience with me, the kindness he has shown in his grace. Truly he has pulled me up from a quagmire, and I'm left standing, with nothing to give but my thanks and love. There are so many elegant solutions for living in a swamp, I had no idea there was an option to leave. Through Jesus, God gave me an olive branch to be saved, then knowing that wouldn't be enough, he gave my hands the strength to grip and my arms the strength to lift.
Every day I come to know and love Jesus more, and experiencing Christ growing in me has been both a joyful and startling experience. It has touched every part of my life, and even now I feel God working in me daily; challenging me, weeding out the bad and planting the good. He has given me deep roots of faith and changed parts of my heart I never thought could be reached.
As I am baptised, I disregard the infinite universe with me at its center, and welcome fully, with all my heart, the infinite God who has adopted me as one of his children. Thank you so much Jesus for opening the floodgates and allowing me to come home to you
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