my testimony
Before I truly knew Jesus, I always felt like I didn’t quite belong. I was constantly seeking advice and direction from other people, even when their words didn’t align with the values I held deep inside. I let my emotions lead me, and I often felt lost,like something was missing, but I couldn’t figure out what.
Last year, I went through one of the hardest seasons of my life. Everything felt uncertain. I was overwhelmed by pain, confusion, and the weight of my own mistakes. I tried to turn to God, but even opening the Bible made me feel ashamed. All I could see were my failures and sins. I felt unworthy and distant from the love I had once believed in.
But one morning, something in me changed. It wasn’t dramatic, it was quiet, but clear. I knew I had to let go of the things that were no longer serving me. The guilt, the fear, the need for control. I made the choice to go back to church, and that’s where the healing began.
As I started to seek God again, I felt a deep sense of renewal. Slowly but surely, I began to understand grace, not just in theory, but in my heart. I started reading the Word not as a list of rules or reminders of what I had done wrong, but as a love letter from my Creator. I learned that God wasn’t waiting to punish me. He was waiting to restore me.
Every day, I’m growing. I still struggle. I still have moments where old habits try to creep in, or when I’m too hard on myself for the things I’ve done. But now I know what it means to be forgiven. I know that I am loved. Not because I’m perfect, but because He is.
God has completely turned my life around. He’s given me peace I never had before, and a passion to keep learning, growing, and living for Him. His love isn’t something I have to earn, it’s something I’ve received freely. And that truth has changed everything.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
— 2 Corinthians 5:17
“When we pledge our faith to Jesus Christ, we become brand new people on the inside. The Holy Spirit gives us new life, and we are not the same people anymore. We are not redormed, rehabilitated, reeducated. We are re-created, new creations living in vital union with Christ. Not only are believers changed from with in, but a whole new order of creative power begins with Christ. We have a new covenant, a new perspective, a new spirit, a new community.”