My Testimony

I was having the hardest time coming up with my testimony the other day. I didn't have a grand experience like some people. I was 5 when I got saved. (Hahaha, it would be funny if I did have a grand conversion story. "Yeah, when I was four, my life was pretty messed up. I was on heroine. My rock band and I slept with different women in every city that we toured to. I thought I had it all, but it just wasn't enough. I came to a place when I was five that I realized, 'I've been alive for 5 years. This can't be all there is to life...'"

[insert Stacie Orrico song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUOcQnWbk_U]

No, it didn't happen like that. There isn't a grand story for me to tell. ("Darn you parents for raising me right!" hahaha) Instead my life is like a ship going from California to Hawaii. If you draw a straight line from one place to the other, the ship is rarely going to be on that line. It wants to be on that line. That's the plotted course, but currents and winds will carry it away. When it starts to drift away from that line, they make a small correction. If they drift to far the other way, they make another small correction. Day by day, they're just trying to stay on that line, and before they know it, they're at their destination.

My life hasn't been about one big decision. It's been about a thousand small corrections. When I start to worry, I make the decision to read to Matthew 6:25. When I start to fear, I decide to run to Psalm 23:4 and 2 Chronicles 20:15. When my friends want to go out drinking, I decide not go to. When I'm sick, or tired, or beat down, or worn out, I decide to worship Jesus. Even if I don't feel like it, Jesus is still worthy of my worship.

My plotted course are the principles I've read in the Bible, and I try to live my life like that. If I drift to far away, I make a correction. If I drift to far the other way, I make another correction. Without even realizing it, I'm getting closer to my destination. My life looks more like Jesus than it used to.

Hebrews 2:1 says it like this.

We must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.

I like that.