I recently heard an excellent sermon on the power of testimony. And
then, not long afterwards, I was reading something and it made me
realise, the Bible is basically a big book of testimonies about God and
all that He has done for His people. And it changes people and leads
them to Him. People ask if God is still relevant today. There are still
testimonies about God happening all the time, all over the world, so we
should be telling people them so they can change people and lead them to
God! Here's mine...
The last month or so have been kinda hard
for me! I don't feel like I've been myself, or even fully know who know
who that is anymore. I've started drinking tea, and doing crazy stuff
like tidying my room, at midnight, on Christmas Eve, and going for longs
walks or a run. One minute I've been a bit hyper and weird and the next
I've been grumpy and horrible to people or crying. (If you've been a
victim of that, I'm sorry! I love y'all really and if I do it again,
just throw chocolate at me and run away!)
I heard, before I
started here at LST, that Bible College can make you go through a phase
of "oh no! All this is crazy! I don't know who God is anymore"! And
someone also said that doing counselling can make you go through a phase
of "oh no! All this is crazy! I don't know who I am anymore"! I think
I'm at that bit of the counselling course. The theology part, however,
has made me want to get to know God better, which is good because at the
moment I really need Him.
It's only the start of the forth week
of this term and, looking back, I feel like there have been more lows
than highs over the last three weeks, mainly to do with other stuff.
Looking back I can also see that God has been with me the whole time and
carried me through it all.
Yesterday I was having a rubbish day
and felt kinda depressed for most of it. In the evening I just went to
my room and cried. I feel like God is trying to deal with stuff in my
life that I've tried to ignore for over fifteen years. (Please don't ask
me about it. My counselling process group will find out when I tell my
story, they can ask.) It's gonna be hard and scary and I just wanted to
run away and not do this term. There's one person who, sometimes I feel
like they know me better than I know myself, but they're up in
Birmingham, so basically, it was just me.
I don't really remember
praying while I was crying, I may have done. But then I found a book. I
only read about two pages and didn't feel like reading much more but
what I did read helped. It made me realise that I wasn't the only one to
ever go through this.
This morning I woke up and did a Bible
study. At church last week I picked up a copy of some notes and was
going to start them on the 1st. However, being me, I lost it.
Fortunately, it was online so the last couple of days I used that. Last
night though, I found the notes. So I used them this morning. And that's
when God showed me that He cares. He was there with me last night,
through the tears and fear and depression and all that crap stuff.
Turns
out, the Bible reading notes I picked up weren't the usual 'this is
what you should be reading on this date' kind. It was an introduction to
those notes. Day 1? "Get up, Get over it and Move on. 'You will forget
the shame of your youth' Isaiah 54:4". It was exactly what I needed! And
some Bible references in it took me back to times when God has spoken
to me in the past. Like I said, I don't really remember if I prayed last
night but this morning God showed me that He was there and that He
loves and cares for me and that He's got me safe and knows what He is
doing.
I still got stuff to work through, but His grace has found me just as I am, empty handed but alive in His hands! =)
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